Damon Albarn Quotes
I was going through a break up. I was depressed... I really did need to do something. Recording an album was a great escape. I don't know what would have happened if I wouldn't have started to work.
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I'm not keeping track, but the record is there for someone to break.
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In the 1990s, the United States offered to help North Korea with its energy needs if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme.
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It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.
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I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?
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Hungary needs Russia.
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Who needs MGM? Who needs any of these places?
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History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
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A lot of the Beatles albums were very various, and we did it on purpose: We didn't want the next track to sound like the last one.
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True confidence leaves no room for jealousy. When you know your are great, you have no need to hate.
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Wait a minute. I don't need to keep proving myself. I don't need to keep showing up at every party.
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Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.
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We need to find ways to communicate with each other.
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Everybody needs four things in life: Something to do, someone to love, someone to believe in and something to hope for.
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If only' repeated again and again in her head like a battering ram...'if only' could break your heart.
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If you fall down those stairs and break both of your legs, don't come running to me!
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...I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life!
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Love is a delicate plant that needs constant tending and nurturing, and this cannot be done by snorting at the adored object like a gas explosion and calling her friends lice.
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Deal first with whatever is causing you the greatest emotional distress. Often this will break the logjam in your work and free you up mentally to complete (the) other tasks.
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If Miles Davis hadn't died it would have been interesting to do an album with him, but there wasn't much else that would have got me into the studio... although Herbie Hancock has just been in touch about doing something and that would be an interesting combination.
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Slowly but surely I have been soaking Rilke up these last few months: the man, his work and his life. And that is probably the only right way with literature, with study, with people or with anything else: to let it all soak in, to let it all mature slowly inside you until it has become a part of yourself. That, too, is a growing process. Everything is a growing process. And in between, emotions and sensations that strike you like lightning. But still the most important thing is the organic process of growing.
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A short-term economic stimulus to help lift us out of this economic slowdown has to be followed by business tax credits and smart investments to sustain longer-term growth.
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I was going through a break up. I was depressed... I really did need to do something. Recording an album was a great escape. I don't know what would have happened if I wouldn't have started to work.
