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4 months ago

The less we say about it the better Make it up as we go along Feet on the ground, head in the sky It's okay, I know nothing's wrong, nothing.

The Less We Say About It The Better Make It Up As We Go Along Feet On The Ground, Head In The Sky It's

(taught myself to rotoscope!)

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1 year ago
Please Be Quiet He's Making Flippy Floppy

please be quiet he's making flippy floppy


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9 months ago

yes he’s my comfort guy but also he’s my weird silly guy he’s my hot rockstar guy he’s my inspiration guy he’s my very special guy he’s my everything guy


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1 year ago

David's dance practice tapes, 1983


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3 years ago
Road To Nowhere, Talking Heads |1985|

road to nowhere, talking heads |1985|


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11 years ago

...it is the music and the lyrics that trigger the emotions within us, rather than the other way around. We don't make music--it makes us.

David Byrne How Music Works


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11 years ago

People tend to think that creative work is an expression of a preexisting desire or passion, a feeling made manifest, and in a way it is. As if an overwhelming anger, love, pain, or longing fills the artist or composer, as it might with any of us—the difference being that the creative artist then has no choice but to express those feelings through his or her given creative medium. I proposed that more often the work is a kind of tool that discovers and brings to light that emotional muck. Singers (and possibly listeners of music too) when they write or perform a song don’t so much bring to the work already formed emotions, ideas, and feelings as much as they use the act of singing as a device that reproduces and dredges them up. The song remakes the emotion—the emotion doesn’t produce the song. Well, the emotion has to have been there at some time in one’s life for there to be something from which to draw. But it seems to me that a creative device—if a work can be considered a device—evokes that passion, melancholy, loneliness, or euphoria but is not itself an expression, an example, a fruit of that passion. Creative work is more accurately a machine that digs down and finds stuff, emotional stuff that will someday be raw material that can be used to produce more stuff, stuff like itself—clay to be available for future use.

David Byrne ‘Bicycle diaries’


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