David Byrne on His Dream When He First Moved to the City

David Byrne says when he first moved to New York City, he wanted to be a fine artist ("an artist who would show in galleries")

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00:00When I moved here, my ambition was to be what we called a fine artist, an artist who would

00:05show in galleries and things like that.

00:08But the kind of art I was doing, I wasn't getting anywhere with it.

00:16Some of the things were very conceptual.

00:17I think there was a single line on a kind of a big piece of paper.

00:26But it was in the exact shape of the New Jersey Turnpike.

00:30You can imagine, yes, a little bit of an uphill climb to get that to go.

00:38But I was really enjoying doing that.