The music of David Byrne’s mind
The TED Interview
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One in a Lifetime
There's also kind of a history here about the early days of sampling, which you were involved with in the collaboration with Brian Eno. I would listen to some of the radio preachers who were ranting. The good ones are very musical. It's like a kind of poetry that really is in some space between kind of text and music. Their voice is very repetitive. It has a cadence. And then yeah, that became the verses of that song.
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