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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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There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior.
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