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Quote by David Byrne
With music, you often dont have to translate it. It just affects y

With music, you often dont have to translate it. It just affects you, and you dont know why. – David Byrne

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Its a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesnt 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? – David Byrne

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Attitude
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David Byrne
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To some extent I happily dont know what Im doing. I feel that its an artists responsibility to trust that. – David Byrne

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Trust
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David Byrne
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Theres a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: youre self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isnt so easy in a car, and you cant cover as much ground walking. – David Byrne

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car
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I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. – Claude Debussy

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I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called rock and roll. – Pete Townshend

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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards. – Keith Richards

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I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set. – Sting

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