Damon Albarn Quotes
A lot of Gorillaz songs were very personal. I mean, that's why it was interesting, because it wasn't music being made for a cartoon. It was something different. It was a much more emotional affair. I wasn't necessarily thinking in the third-person then.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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I think that 'Lost' is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics just don't support making a show this big and complicated profitable enough for a network.
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I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.
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I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party or political expediency.
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Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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When I had dark hair I definitely felt that I was more anonymous.
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When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.
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We're right to say that a culture that can't tolerate free speech is... there are a wide range of positive human experiences that are not available in that culture. And we're right to want those experiences.
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When I was around nine, my parents took me to my first live event, which was a WWE show with Ultimate Warrior. From then on, I loved it.
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I like black because it is a vacant space.
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The future is never written...only penciled in.
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There's times where you think, 'Gosh, what if nobody ever wants to hear what I have to say?'
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I went to music school, and I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student.
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Thoughts would go in and out of my mind, but I didn't want to believe that he could have done it.
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Everything that goes outside the rules of Italian cinema has always been cursed.
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The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.
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The historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter.
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The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow.
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What makes a song last is real content from a mind that is thinking a little bit harder about certain things. A lot of artists don't really think that hard.
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When I was a tiny tot, we only had one record player in the house, so there was either Genesis on it or the Jungle Book or The Beatles as well, and various other things.
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A lot of Gorillaz songs were very personal. I mean, that's why it was interesting, because it wasn't music being made for a cartoon. It was something different. It was a much more emotional affair. I wasn't necessarily thinking in the third-person then.
