I remember when that Kelis song 'Milkshake' came out, and just how extreme it seemed in terms of that really high triangle part and then the really low subs and then her voice in the middle.

David Longstreth

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American - Musician Born: December 17, 1981

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Bjork has this kind of abstraction and formalism that you associate with art music or avant-garde music.David Longstreth

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Avant-Garde Abstraction Associate

Even after the screening of 'Triangle' in Cannes, I can see it in people's eyes: They see me and Carl as the same person.Harris Dickinson

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Screening Triangle Cannes

A song is about heartbreak - but what are the constituent feelings? What are the aspects? There is anger, there is guilt, there are all these different things. I guess putting those voices into dialogue together just felt real.David Longstreth

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Guilt Heartbreak Dialogue

A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge on the wall; that is, side to floor, for instance.Dan Flavin

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Edge Wall Separate

I love the triangle. It's a great offense if you execute it well.Kristaps Porzingis

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Offense Execute

There are a lot of facets of the triangle I can take advantage of. It does a great job of spacing the floor, getting people in the right spots. It plays to my strengths. I stay around the elbow and blocks.Robin Lopez

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Blocks Facets Spots

When it comes to music, I am a dictator. Making a Dirty Projectors record come to life is like making a movie; I'm the one that makes the picture, and then we all figure out how to realise it.David Longstreth

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Dirty Dictator Realise

Steely Dan is a band I'm not that into. Well, I guess I like certain singles.David Longstreth

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Dirty Projectors has always been a band that's been card-carrying modernists in terms of pushing different kinds of abstraction to the fore and trying to take them to the center of the culture or something like that.David Longstreth

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Projector Pushing Fore

The triangle offense is more for slashers and people who like to take the ball to the basket.Reggie Miller

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Triangle Basket Ball

I remember when I first saw 'Guided by Voices'; those earlier recordings are so deconstructed, kind of like four-track music, and so artful in their collage and in their weird fragility.David Longstreth

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Guided Collage Fragility

When I was small, my face was like a little triangle. My hair was a pale copper color. I had thick brows, over eyes the color of frozen peas. I was odd-looking, but I knew I would be all right when I was older.Jean Marsh

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Peas Brow Frozen

The great Chicago teams when Tex Winter and Phil Jackson were there - the triangle was just amazing. I know Michael Jordan was great, but everybody touched the ball, everybody cut, everybody moved. It was just so hard to guard.Mike Budenholzer

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Phil Winter Hard

I play basketball; I actually like the triangle. It opens things up if you know how to move without the ball and know how to cut. That's the game you learn in high school and younger - pass, cut - basically the fundamentals of basketball, which makes it extremely difficult to guard.Stephon Marbury

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High School Move Basketball