Damon Albarn Quotes
Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.
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If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people to the sound. But I hope to continue to incorporate other types of Indian music into my work.
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I'm trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.
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I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often.
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Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.
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Any time you make more than a couple of friends at an event, I think that you actually made no friends.
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I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis.
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Seems like we were always running away from President Obama or trying to undo what he's done.
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I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.
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I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.
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Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.
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I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.
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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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It's really hard when people write nasty things about you all the time. As much as good things are said about you, it's always those one or two bad comments that really stay with you and gnaw at you. I try not to read that stuff if I can.
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In 2006, when doing a live stage show in Ireland, I tried for the first time to instantly induct a subject on stage, something I had never done before, nor did I know if it would ever work. The result almost cost me my career; the man I grabbed and instantly inducted went out cold and fell to the floor.
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I love playing music with people, but I also just love the art and meditation of being alone and working on stuff.
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Finding things to wear is what the Internet's for.
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When I was president of the company, I said, 'Okay, I can do this - piece of cake.' Then when you are the CEO, the responsibilities multiply enormously because you worry about everything.
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Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.
