Blur Quotes
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I challenge record companies to show me evidence of a single penny they've lost due to Napster.
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I can't be bothered anymore about giving songs titles.
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It evolved out of the idea to make a kids TV show. And it actually turned out to be a bit dull and a bit regulated and too many people looking over your shoulder and it wasn't really.
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No, every album is something like a snapshot. It only shows one moment in time. It shows what we feel and think right at that point in time, nothing more and nothing less.
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Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.
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But probably for the last ten years or so, I've been fitting in animation work into my other projects.
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There's need to be some sort of disturbance in your psyche for creativity to be sparked.
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There is a thrill of vulnerability at all airshows. There is no way of making everything completely safe. When the machines are being thrashed to capacity and the pilots are flying at their limits to dazzle, things are bound to go wrong sometimes. There have been some historic disasters, but the danger is a part of the attraction.
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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.
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I don't think anyone who has ever counted drinking amongst their hobbies has never kissed a man.
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There are a lot of people who can do it on the guitar and sing at the same time, but I think what is harder is bass players that can play the bass and sing.
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I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up.
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Food is one of life's really great pleasures. My 20th birthday party was all about booze, my 30th birthday was about drugs, and now I realise that my 40s are about food. It's something you appreciate more and more as you get older.
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Oasis were like the bullies I had to put up with at school.
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Being a singer now I have to get all fussy... I must have my ginger and lemon and all that.
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I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking.
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The fact that file sharing goes on, and is as popular as it is, is an incredibly positive thing for the music industry. The fact is that music is so popular that people are willing to break the law to get it.
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I’m constantly embarrassed. I fidget and twist my hair and pull weird faces and stutter. Some days I feel quite confident, then others there’s a microscopic flaw about myself physically, which will make me embarrassed to walk the streets.
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A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone.
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It's the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam.
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Like, Mission Of Burma to me always sounded almost like they were part of the British Arty New Wave. I kind of like that. I like not being able to tell the difference.
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I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London... or Leeds or Welsh or Irish.
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It was quite nice meeting up because we went through a lot together and we haven't really seen each much other to communicate one to one for quite a long time.
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Danger Mouse is now working on a bunch of other records, translating his ideas about remixing into all sorts of other projects.