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 will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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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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Being in love is the best thing in my life.
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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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In fact, when the fires of empire get hidden, they still stay burning underneath the moss, seething away. This is true with a lot of the countries with really difficult, impenetrable nationalist movements - countries that once had a big empire, like Turkey, England, or even in Italy, with the fascists in the middle of the last century. People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway.
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A song has to be hummable and memorable at it simplest form, and that's what bass does for me. I feel like the glue to everything.
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Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.
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Whenever I go out with a girl for a meal, I'm recognised, and I hear, 'That's Chad's girl,' before anyone even approaches for a picture. I can't take arrogance and rude behaviour, and I really get a lot of it.
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The concept of loyalty is a very strange concept. When loyalty is to be tested, the real answer is that may it never be.
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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.
