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Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for.
David Byrne
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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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The more you know, the more you know you don't know and the more you know that you don't know.
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I'm really curious how the private listening - iPods, people listening on their phones - how that might eventual effect music. There'll be a whole genre of music that really works on a kind of one to one headphone or earbud level but doesn't really work when you play it in a room.
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It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another?
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It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.
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