"I don't care how impossible it seems.
Music eats its young and gives birth to a new hybrid creature.
~ David Byrne ~
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Music eats its young and gives birth to a new hybrid creature.
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"It was a uniform that signified that one was a kind of downtown aesthete; not necessarily nihilistic, but a monk in the bohemian order.
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"In the early days, I might have gotten on stage and begun to sing as a desperate attempt to communicate, but now I found that singing was both a physi...
"In musical performances one can sense that the person on stage is having a good time even if they're singing a song about breaking up or being in a ba...
"The online music magazine Pitchfork once wrote that I would collaborate with anyone for a bag of Doritos.
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"But at times words can be a dangerous addition to music — they can pin it down. Words imply that the music is about what the words say, literally, and...
"You might say that the universe plays the blues.
"Recordings aren't time sensitive. You can hear the music you want whether it's morning, noon, or the middle of the night. You can "get into" clubs vir...