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The packaging for music has become a sort of King James Bible, where it elevates the contents to something more spiritual. This is something else that drove me to a newspaper format. I thought, Let's put it in a newspaper, to get away from that spiritual thing.

Stanley Donwood

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Stanley Donwood
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: October 29
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