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“Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.”

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David Strathairn is an accomplished American actor, born on January 26, 1949. He is renowned for his outstanding performances in various film and television projects, known for his skillful portrayal of diverse characters. more

“With a lot of what we take to be true feelings, especially on pop records, we feel them because they're cleverly crafted. And because the words are written by somebody who knows how to craft words and draw on those things and convey those feelings. That doesn't mean they're dishonest. But it also doesn't mean that it's all just pure primitive emotion spilling out.”

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Author:David Byrne

“There's still a feeling that uncensored emotions make a good song. They don't. Pure emotion is just somebody screaming at you, or crying. It doesn't communicate anything.”

Stills Feelings Song Emotion Cry Pure Communicate

Author:David Byrne

“Dancehall music is perceived as party music, which it is because of the rhythm, but there are messages that do come through or a purpose of an artist saying something to the world. People usually don't get the messages because of the partying.”

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Author:Sean Paul

“A lot of that worked itself out in the recording.”

Author:David Byrne

“I'm being probably naïve, but I would like to think that once something moves you and you have an emotional involvement with it, and you see some relevance in it to your own life, then it's a little bit harder, maybe, to look at the people that produced it as being just exotic others that don't have any connection to you or relevance to you.”

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Author:David Byrne

“Some things, I feel like no, I never could have the depth of experience of their own music and culture - but sometimes if I'm collaborating with somebody, they're interested in me bringing my own stuff into their thing, and sometimes that works.”

Ifs Feels Sometimes Culture Stuff My Own Depth Collaborating

Author:David Byrne

“I'd been keeping tour diaries, and especially when I go somewhere where I felt the experience might be interesting, like Eastern Europe or South America or whatever, where the whole perception of what I was doing there and stuff that I was seeing and music I was hearing, I could put all that into a diary.”

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Author:David Byrne

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