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David Byrne (/bɜːrn/; born 14 May 1952) is a Scottish-American musician who was the founding member, principal songwriter, and lead singer and guitarist of the American new wave band Talking Heads (1975–1991). Byrne is a multi-instrumentalist and is known for his distinctive voice.

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With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often very productively, within the parameters.

Age, Big, Degrees, Music, Single, Thinking

Yeah, it's pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

Cynical, Days, Pretty, These Days, Yeah

I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it

Don'T Trust, Read, Times, Trust

My favorite term for a new kind of performance is "security theater. " In this genre, we watch as ritualized inspections and patdowns create the illusion of security. It's a form that has become common since 9
11, and even the government agencies that participate in this activity acknowledge,off the record, that it is indeed a species of theater.

Agency, Genre, Government, Illusion, Watches

Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.

Cycling, Depending, Faster, Head, Joy

All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.

Chords, Couple, Indie, Label, Labels

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

Accumulation, Decision, Decisions, Ignored, Life, Mundane Life

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

Demise, Part, Popular, Records, World

To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.

Inspirational, Know, Music, Responsibility, Trust

There's a pervasive feeling that when somebody sings a song and records a song on a record, that it's their true feeling.

Feelings, Pervasive, Records, Somebody, Song, True

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

Faces, People, Screaming, Stage, Twitching

That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.

Pictures, Seduce, Seducing, Thing

People in Latin America. . . love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

Hate, Latin, America, Ways, Emulate

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

Emotional, Body, Bass, Combine, Grooves

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.

Digital, Digitally, Images, Missing, Possibility, Printed

I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.

Agenda, Agendas, Stuff, Writing

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

Attitude, Defined, Musical, Punk, Style

Living "in" a story, being part of a narrative, is much more satisfying than living without one. I don't always know what narrative it is, because I'm living my life and not always reflecting on it, but as I edit these pages I am aware that I have an urge to see my sometimes random wandering as having a plot, a purpose guided by some underlying story.

Plot, Purpose, See, Stories, Story, Underlying

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.

Believe, Feelings, Mouth, Think, Thinking

I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.

Green, Hills, Pictures, Rolling, Take

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