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David Byrne

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Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.


— David Byrne


#drama #exciting #going #lives #most

Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law.


— David Byrne


#bands #crap #decide #given #going

Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.


— David Byrne


#emotional #go #lot #obviously #through

One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you're allowed to fail.


— David Byrne


#audiences #benefits #clubs #fail #few

People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that's pretty much all you can ask.


— David Byrne


#ask #finding #front #guess #i

People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.


— David Byrne


#friends #hear #magazine #newspaper #people

People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.


— David Byrne


#also #america #does #emulate #hate

People use irony as a defense mechanism.


— David Byrne


#defense mechanism #irony #mechanism #people #use

Physical contact is a human necessity.


— David Byrne


#human #necessity #physical

PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows.


— David Byrne


#another way #any #artistic #knows #liberate






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Did you know about David Byrne?

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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