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"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."
"The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it."
"Man's life, as required by his nature, is not the life of a mindless brute, of a looting thug or a mooching mystic, but the life of a thinking being-not life by means of force or fraud, but life by means of achievement-not survival at any price, since there's only one price that pays for man's survival: reason."
"A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason."
"When everybody worships all sort of religious lies and illogical myths, dare to be there, in the land of reason!"
"If a thing which is believed by billions is against the reason and not supported by the science, it is a great honour not to be amongst those billions!"
Explore more quotes by David Byrne
"It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music."
"I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?"
"People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them."
"To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that."
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