David Byrne Quotes
It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.
Quotes to Explore
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I had an idea on piano for different songs, and we just married them together. We bounce things off each other constantly and kind of massage all these ideas into a three and a half minute pop song.
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Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
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Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
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My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
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What's been happening in Iraq, what young Americans wearing flak jackets, helmets and flight suits have done is... created the circumstances under which Iraq can become our closest ally in that part of the world and still have a representative government. And that's going to be a very good thing considering what's going on in that neighborhood.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
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The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.
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I don't know how many kids I am going to have, but definitely I am one of those women who wants to have family and kids.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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If you come up and are struggling after three months you need the money to be able to buy somebody who can give you a bit of impetus.
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If I'm the biggest artist in the world, cool, but I want to just be me.
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I am obsessed with rap music - it's such a big part of my life.
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'Straight Outta Compton' was such a great movie, and obviously, I'm in the music business, so getting to see that piece of history was amazing, and it was an incredible movie.
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I dont really take anything from home except some U.S. magazines and books and definitely some U.S. music. There are just certain songs that remind me of home.
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It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.
