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Quotes by David Byrne
- The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.
- The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.
- The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.
- There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're 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 isn't so easy in a car, and you can't cover as much ground walking.
- There's more good music being made now than ever before.
- 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 it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior.
- To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.
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