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Something Quotes by David Byrne
- 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…
- The very best [infographics] engender and facilitate an insight by visual means — allow us to grasp some relationship quickly and easily that otherwise would…
- Something about music urges us to engage with its larger context, beyond the piece of plastic it came on-it seems to be part of our…
- There are a lot of people that don't scour websites regularly or read music reviews. They need whatever, the other kinds of stuff, whether it's…
- There's a great temptation to clean everything up and make everything more perfect. You have to know when to stop and stop doing it, or…
- Music is relegated to an underground, relatively obscure group of listeners. It's partly because of the nature of the medium. With a piece of visual…
- I still feel like if I can get a song to work with, say, a basic beat, a rhythm, some chord changes, and a melody,…
- It seemed [there are] musical nodes on the planet where cultures meet and mix, sometimes as a result of unfortunate circumstances, like slavery or something…
- Sometimes the European and North American public like some things to be exotic and kept at arm's length. They don't want sometimes to know that…
- I'm being probably naïve, but I would like to think that once something moves you and you have an emotional involvement with it, and you…
- I think sometimes I get carried away, like I'm speaking to an imaginary audience rather than just trying to figure something out for myself. Ideally,…
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- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail. — Giorgio Armani
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. — J. J. Abrams
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen