Damon Albarn Quotes
I hope we can keep doing it this way - making music and art that are pure products of our influences while not really having to let the whole celebrity side of it get in the way. Then maybe more virtual bands will come out and do the same thing.
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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The world is too violent right now.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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I've found that people feel very free to say insulting things, not about me personally, but about the things I believe. It's sad, because I really could care less where people are coming from, politically, religiously.
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When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.
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Over the years, I have realized that there's more to a film's fate than just good acting and a solid script. It needs to be marketed well. It's the package that sells - the songs, action, actors, etc.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.
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I go out, but not too much. When I'm on tour, I just write a lot of music and sleep.
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Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
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Kids. They're not easy. But there has to be some penalty for sex.
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The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
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I think it's important for me as an actor that I say these are the issues I'm going to be committed to. One of them for me is women and children's health around the world and their rights;the other is ovarian cancer.
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You got to make the most of your second life. I was born Nayvadius, but now I'm Future. Should I dwell on what Nayvadius was supposed to be? I get a chance to experience life as something else. I wasn't supposed to be like this.
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I hope we can keep doing it this way - making music and art that are pure products of our influences while not really having to let the whole celebrity side of it get in the way. Then maybe more virtual bands will come out and do the same thing.
