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

David Byrne · Music

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David Byrne

Architecture theory is very interesting.

Architecture

David Byrne

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?

Attitude

David Byrne

I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'

Politics

David Byrne

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

Business