Talking Heads Quotes

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Lester Bangs
“But since death is inevitable we don’t have to deal with it (it’ll deal with us when it decides to). What we do have to deal with is the psychic, physical, and fusion diseases wrought during our so-called lives as byproducts of the elemental clash. In other words we’re all terminally psychotic and no doctor, hospital, pill, needle, book or guru holds the cure. Because the disease is called life and there is no cure for that but death and death’s just part of the set-up designed to keep you terrified and thus in bondage from the cradle to the crypt so ha ha the joke’s on you except there’s no punchline and the comedian forgot you ever existed as even a comma.”
Lester Bangs

David   Byrne
“And you may find yourself in another part of the world
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife
And you may ask yourself, "Well... how did I get here?"
Letting the days go by...”
David Byrne

David   Byrne
“Patience is a virtue but I don't have the time.”
David Byrne

David   Byrne
“Music eats its young and gives birth to a new hybrid creature.”
David Byrne

David   Byrne
“According to the science writer Philip Ball, when it was pointed out to musicologist Deryck Cooke
that Slavic and much Spanish music use minor keys for happy music, he claimed that their lives
were so hard that they didn’t really know what happiness was anyway.”
David Byrne

David   Byrne
“There is water at the bottom of the ocean.”
David Byrne