"I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it."
-David Byrne
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"It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another?“
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"To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that."
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-David Byrne
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"There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior."
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"It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas."
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