Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

David Byrne
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  1. 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.

  2. I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe--but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when looked at in a typically scientific way. I wouldn't be surprised if poetry--poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world...

  3. I wouldn't be surprised if poetry - poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs - is how the world works. The world isn't logical; it's a song.

  4. It's a bit like sympathetic magic in a way: the usual Western presumption that 'primitive' rituals mimic what they desire to achieve--that phallic objects might be believed to increase male potency and playacting rainfall might somehow bring it about. I am suspicious of such obvious...

  5. Complete freedom is as much curse as boon; freedom within strict and well-defined confines is, to me, ideal.

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