It's more about the stuff you think about when you're getting from place to place on a bicycle than it is about actually riding the bicycle.

David Byrne

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When everything is worth money, then money is worth nothing. by David Byrne

When everything is worth money, then money is worth nothing.

Crime is a job. Sex is a job. Growing up is a job. School is a job. Going to parties is a job. Religion is a job. Being creative is a job

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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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Human beings have the incredible capacity for denial. I think they do. And although it's really hard to believe, I have my doubts. But my feeling is that first they have to convince themselves. First they have to justify this stuff to themselves and if they can do that, even for just the moment that it's coming out their mouth, then they can kind of mouth it with kind of believable sincerity, even if some of us.

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You may say to yourself: "Well, how did I get here?" by David Byrne

You may say to yourself: "Well, how did I get here?"

By the time Talking Heads were starting, my feeling was to throw out everything and start from scratch onstage; strip it down to as close to zero as you can get and then you can make it yours.

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My take is that the kind of complexity which says we can always generate complexity from simple interactions following for example rules.

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What's been missing from digital music sales has been the possibility of added depth. In a printed package one can only include so many images and so much text - for example - but digitally it's wide open. For the most part at the moment we get less information for slightly less money - though we could be getting a lot more.

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What's been missing from digital music sales has been the possibility of added depth. In a printed package one can only include so many images and so much text - for example - but digitally it's wide open.

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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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The arts don't exist in isolation. by David Byrne

The arts don't exist in isolation.

For years we have been taught not to like things. Finally somebody said it was OK to like things. This was a great relief. It was getting hard to go around not liking everything.

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You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in... by David Byrne

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.

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We've gone through the urban renewal cycle in the '60s and '70s that really did a lot of damage to the fabric of urban life - neighborhoods bulldozed and highways pushed through, and all that kind of stuff that really destroyed the kind of social underpinning and the kind of mom and pop stores and all the stuff that makes a community viable.

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We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing. by David Byrne

We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing.

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The most common music that you hear anywhere in the world now basically has its roots in that union that happened in the last century, or in the century before that. That kind of music that's groove or beat oriented just didn't exist in lots of cultures before that.

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I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills. by David Byrne

I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.

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The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove. by David Byrne

The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.

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I've been asking myself: 'Why put together these things - CDs, albums?' The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it's artistically viable. It's not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it's not obvious or even conscious on the artists' part.

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Rich people will travel great distances to look at poor people. by David Byrne

Rich people will travel great distances to look at poor people.

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