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The Science of Happiness

David Byrne on How Music Connects Us

The Science of Happiness

PRX and Greater Good Science Center

Science, Social Sciences

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Music helped former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne come out of his shell. Hear Byrne's story and learn how music creates social bonds in part one of our series, The Science of Music and Happiness.

Transcript

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As a kid, I heard rock and pop and soul music and whatever on our little transistor radio

0:52.6

that I had.

0:53.6

So the audio quality would be less than what you'd hear on a phone.

1:02.4

That was enough to kind of tell me in some kind of way that there was another world out

1:06.5

there, other than the world in my little community.

1:09.9

Another world beyond what I was aware of in school.

1:14.0

And it seemed like a world that was really exciting and innovative, and another universe

1:20.7

even.

1:27.1

Music was telling me all that.

1:28.9

It was telling me there might be people there that had the same interests that I do.

1:34.3

And that was exciting.

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