Damon Albarn Quotes

• Well, as resources inevitably disappear [in Africa], people have to make do with a lot less. You have to be much more ingenious with a lot less, and accept that you can't get your perfect tuna sandwich on a street corner.

  Damon Albarn

  Perfect   People   Sandwiches  

  "Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett". Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. January 26, 2009.

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• In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.

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  Life   People   Addiction  

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• I have to wear a new T-shirt every night. I throw them into the audience. One day I'm going to go around the world and reclaim all my T-shirts

  Damon Albarn

  Night   One Day   World  

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• More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.

  Damon Albarn

  Art   Interesting   Groups  

  "Keeping it (un)real". Interview with Neil Gaiman, www.wired.com. July 1, 2005.

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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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  Albums   Needs   Break  

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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.

  Damon Albarn

  Heart   Long   Speak  

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• And there are no stars and that you're never really sure who's doing what and what voice is what and, you know what I mean? It's supposed to be quite elusive

  Damon Albarn

  Stars   Mean   Voice  

  "Gorillaz in tha Midst". Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. June 29, 2001.

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• I'm an English songwriter/composer, working in Mandarin and trying to find something about Chinese culture that I really relate to and respect and feel some genuine emotions for - and it's quite hard, the pentatonic scale, and that, in a way, is why I think it works. Because I'm forced to limit myself to quite strict rules about what I did. Maybe that's how I avoided pastiche.

  Damon Albarn

  Thinking   Chinese   Trying  

  "Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett". Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. January 26, 2009.

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• Oasis were like the bullies I had to put up with at school.

  Damon Albarn

  School   Oasis   Bully  

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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.

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  Song   Mean   Emotional  

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Every time I go to Africa, I see the future. I see what the Western world is going to become. It's a very futuristic place.

  Damon Albarn

  World   Futuristic   Western  

  "Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett". Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. January 26, 2009.

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• I was naive enough to believe it would be enough to replace the government. Well, I made fun of the people in the government and then realized that even if we got rid of them, they were replaced by exactly the same guys.

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  Fun   Believe   Government  

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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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  Creativity   Needs   Disturbance  

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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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  Thinking   Albums   Snapshots  

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• I was approached by Oxfam to go to Mali as their ambassador and get involved in their various initiatives out there. But I felt that was missing the point of using me, a musician

  Damon Albarn

  Missing You   Musician   Ambassadors  

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• I'm slightly ambivalent to the whole relationship between the whole advertising world and music. I think sometimes it works and sometimes it's a really bad mismatch. I think on this occasion its fine because the iPod is like your own mini-library and that can't be a bad thing. It promotes eclecticism and that's very much what we are about so it's a good relationship.

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  Thinking   Good Relationship   World  

  Source: www.today.com

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• I can't be bothered anymore about giving songs titles.

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  Song   Giving   Titles  

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• There's always been a hip-hop element to my trousers.

  Damon Albarn

  Hip Hop   Elements   Hips  

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• My guaranteed way of sending myself into deep depression is to read music trade papers and watch MTV.

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  Mtv   Watches   Paper  

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• Yeah. You've seen The Sun today; I've got myself a big house, settled down. Apart from the odd night out with the New Fathers' Club, I'm a family man now.

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  Father   Night   Men  

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• If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.

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  Careers   Important   Feels  

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• As a musician usually music is your way out.

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  Musician   Way   Music Is  

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• The whole period has taught me that I enjoy being part of an ensemble rather than just a front man. Don't get me wrong - I enjoy that too, but I get more enjoyment out of really listening to everyone.

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  Men   Listening   Taught  

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• I like to put my iPad on the window and leave it there for however long the journey is, so that I'm staring out, and it's staring out. We're kind of staring out together. It's very poetic to me, watching that absent-minded passing of time. You realize how much you've taken in. What is left of that memory of you staring out of the window for an hour? It's all on the iPad.

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  Memories   Taken   Journey  

  Interview with Lindsay Zoladz, pitchfork.com. April 07, 2014.

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• I've always known I'm incredibly special. All my life. You know? It's not a big deal.

  Damon Albarn

  Special   Bigs   Deals  

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• The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?

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  Moving   Ideas   Cartoon  

  "Gorillaz in tha Midst". Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. June 29, 2001.

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• It's important that Oasis are rude about everybody and that they get drunk...Fair enough. It's nice, isn't it? But it's nothing to do with me. They came to see us in Manchester and they were very pleasant boys. Very nice. I'd like to see that as a quote. Oasis are very nice boys.

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  Music   Nice   Boys  

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• The whole Gorillaz concept is one for mavericks; it's a way for people who never have a chance to work together being able to ally behind the cartoons.

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  People   Working Together   Cartoon  

  Source: www.today.com

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• The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie

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  Real   Lying   People  

  "Keeping it (un)real". Interview with Neil Gaiman, www.wired.com. July 1, 2005.

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• I used to be younger than my producers but now I'm older than my producers and I think that works for me, that works better cause you get a good kick up the ... everyday.

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  Thinking   Everyday   Producers  

  Source: www.today.com

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