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David Byrne

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When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.


— David Byrne


#bands #different #lot #really #sounded

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?


— David Byrne


#future #instead #invest #music #past

With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.


— David Byrne


#just #know #music #often #translate

Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms.


— David Byrne


#bedrooms #cassette #deck #go #home

Yeah, it's pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.


— David Byrne


#cynical #days #hard #pretty #these

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.


— David Byrne


#enjoy #how #know #riding #runs

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.


— David Byrne


#community #concerts #create #friends #just

I'm just an animal looking for a home Share the same space for a minute or two And you love me till my heart stops Love me till I'm dead


— David Byrne


#talking-heads #this-must-be-the-place #home

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.


— David Byrne


#music #object #physical #tend

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.


— David Byrne


#disease #face #glamour #horror #industry






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In May 2011 Byrne contributed backing vocals to the Arcade Fire track "Speaking in Tongues" which appeared on the deluxe edition of their 2010 album The Suburbs. Since then Byrne has released his own solo recordings and worked with various media including film photography opera and non-fiction. Some music from this piece was debuted at Adelaide Festival of Arts in Australia in February 2006 and the following year at Carnegie Hall on February 3 2007.

Since then Byrne has released his own solo recordings and worked with various media including film photography opera and non-fiction. He has received Grammy Oscar and Golden Globe awards and been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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