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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The music is just so rich and part of the culture there. I suddenly felt like I needed to go on this mission to make sure we save New Orleans because - not that I can save anything - but it's so much part of what this country is, this whole mix of people coming together and doing this thing.
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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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It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.
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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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It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
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The Italian Renaissance extends beyond food, of course. Just about every major Italian furniture designer now has a shop in Paris, and Le Bon Marche recently opened an outlet for Santa Maria Novella perfumes, elixirs and soaps from Florence on its ground floor.
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I was very shy as a child. Very shy. Lot of problems with very simple things. Like entering a restaurant all by myself.
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Who was the first man to look at a house full of objects and to immediately assess them only in terms of what he could trade them in for in the market likely to have been? Surely he can only have been a thief.
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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.
