Scottish - Musician | May 14, 1952 -
There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.
David Byrne
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So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.
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If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it.
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I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition.
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I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn.
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I think sometimes - not always - I write songs that are accessible.
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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.
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The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.
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Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he's around.
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One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you're allowed to fail.
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Physical contact is a human necessity.
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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 of that stuff. They really did it properly, which New York is getting to little by little.
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