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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And if we folks have a motto, it's this: 'Don't holler - smile and bide your time.' We've survived a passel of things that way, smiling and biding our time, and we've gotten to be experts at surviving.
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I've always been wary of marriage.
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What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.
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Hardworking, passionate teachers know their students' needs better than anyone else in the school environment. If we can tap into their needs, we can unleash smarter solutions and empower those people on the front lines.
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I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.
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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.
