Often I don't know what the ...

Often I don't know what the song means until it's finished. Sometimes months later. I don't think that's bad. It implies that I don't know what I'm doing but-I think if you're able to follow your instincts, then that's knowing what you're doing.
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 David Byrne

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I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.
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We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing.
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When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke.
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Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.
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Maybe it's naïve, but I would love to believe that once you grow to love some aspect of a culture-its music, for instance -you can never again think of the people of that culture as less than yourself. I would like to believe that if I am deeply moved by a song originating from some place other than my own homeland, then I have in some way shared an experience with the people of that culture. I have been pleasantly contaminated. I can identify in some small way with it and its people.
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 David Byrne