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In retrospect, I can see I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!

~David Byrne

Topics: About Face Got Like Made People Retrospect Screaming See Sense Stage Started Sure Talk I Can

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I'm proud of 'Stop Making Sense,' but it's a little bit of an albatross; I can't compete with it, but I can't ignore it either.

~David Byrne

Topics: Bit Compete Either Ignore Little Little Bit Making Proud Sense Stop

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Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

~David Byrne

Topics: Actual Affect Affected Big Big Impact Content Creativity Environment Even Financial Forces Impact Making Market Might Music Obviously Profoundly Song Structures Technology Think Too Unrelated Utterly You

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With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often very productively, within the parameters.

~David Byrne

Topics: Age Bands Because Big Conform Degree Dictates Download Endured Even Form Format Just Music Often Parameters Pop Pop Music Single Strict Think Very Within Work

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I meet young people who know me and are familiar with my stuff. They know the package. They might have cherry-picked five or six key tunes. That's how it seems to work. I sometimes wonder if they realise they are not getting the whole context.

~David Byrne

Topics: Context Familiar Five Getting How Key Know Me Meet Might Package People Realise Seems Six Sometimes Stuff Tunes Who Whole Wonder Work Young Young People

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I think I had a mild case of Asperger's as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while. For some people, anyway.

~David Byrne

Topics: After Anyway Case Guy Had Just Mild Off People Some Some People Think Wears While Younger I Think

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I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don't think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.

~David Byrne

Topics: Advice After Any Anyway Arcade Fire First Gave Getting Kinds Labels Major Me Offers Pretty Record Remember Survived Talking Them Think Well Were Whole Without I Remember

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In a certain way, it's the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.

~David Byrne

Topics: Actual Certain Certain Way Fits Literal Meaning Melody Much Song Sound Sung Syllables Tongue Way Words

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Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so.

~David Byrne

Topics: Attitudes Change Civic Creative Depending Live Social Think Where Yes I Think

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Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don't have names for what they are or haven't identified them all. We can't pinpoint exactly what makes each city's people unique yet.

~David Byrne

Topics: City Each Every Exactly Exactly What Identified Makes Maybe Names People Pinpoint Sensibility Them Unique

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Musician

Born: May 14th, 1952

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