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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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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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 those are your friends, you've got no need for enemies.
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So we don't need more top-down economics. We've tried that theory. We've seen what happens. We can't afford to go back to it.
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It's a little hard for me to stand behind the walls of the great mansion and play rock and roll star. I feel the need to give back.
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I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
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The strongest thing that any human being has going is their own integrity and their own heart. As soon as you start veering away from that, the solidity that you need in order to be able to stand up for what you believe in and deliver what's really inside, it's just not going to be there.
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So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.
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My process in making a music video is pretty much a formula of talking to the artist. I've never made a video where I didn't talk to the artist before I wrote the treatment. Basically, I enter into it knowing we are collaborators.
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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.
