"As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder,……" — David Byrne
"As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again."
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182 Quotes by David Byrne
David Byrne has 182 quotes on this site.
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I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging…
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Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic.…
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From what I've heard, Paris did a little bit more prep work as far as making bike lanes and all…
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I don't think people are going to switch over to bikes because it's good for them or because it's politically…
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I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign…
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I've been asking myself: 'Why put together these things - CDs, albums?' The answer I came up with is, well,…
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Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still…
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When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help…
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The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the…
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To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.
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My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.
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I found music to be the therapy of choice.
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Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
— Charles Baudelaire
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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by…
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There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are unnumerable…
— Giordano Bruno
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Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and…
— Aristotle
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Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything.
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You'd better discover a more important motive than publication for your work or else you'll go crazy. My sense is…
— Unknown Author
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I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the…
— Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet
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I'm an atheist how unfortunate it is to assign responsibility to the higher up for justice amongst people,
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Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People…
— George Washington
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Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the…
— Sigmund Freud
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Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral; he could handle any missile.
— Marianne Moore
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