"Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence."
-David Byrne
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"It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.“
-David Byrne
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"It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another?"
-David Byrne
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"I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass."
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"Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style."
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"The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray."
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"My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food."
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"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
-C. S. Lewis
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"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."
-Woody Allen
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"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."
-Ernst Fischer
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"Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know."
-Groucho Marx
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"I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot."
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"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."
-Andy Warhol
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