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I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country. -- Damon Albarn
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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. -- Damon Albarn
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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. -- Damon Albarn
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I want to be a better person in every aspect. I really don't feel I've in anyway fulfilled my potential in every area of my life. But I'm optimistic. -- Damon Albarn
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I'm a working musician, so it's what I do. I kind of always have lots of plates spinning, and it's the ones that keep spinning the longest that I end up doing. -- Damon Albarn
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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. -- Damon Albarn
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I don't need to be a frontman all the time, and in fact, the older I get, the less of an urge it is inside me to play that role. I've still got it inside me, and I do occasionally allow it out. -- Damon Albarn
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My guaranteed way of sending myself into deep depression is to read music trade papers and watch MTV. -- Damon Albarn
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I used to go to work and take heroin in the studio and then stop when I came home, -- Damon Albarn
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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. -- Damon Albarn
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What you learn from working with other performers and musicians is invaluable, really, and can only help you grow. I mean, if you spend your whole life focusing on yourself, you're not really learning much. -- Damon Albarn
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In Africa, as resources inevitably disappear, 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
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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. -- Damon Albarn
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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
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There's always been a hip-hop element to my trousers. -- Damon Albarn
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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. -- Damon Albarn
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I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across. -- Damon Albarn
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I can't be bothered anymore about giving songs titles. -- Damon Albarn
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Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time. -- Damon Albarn
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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. -- Damon Albarn
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Oasis were like the bullies I had to put up with at school. -- Damon Albarn
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It always struck me that Africa was, in a strange way, a futuristic place and had elements and vibes and spirits that were going to inform the future. Africa Express is an attempt to engage that power outside Africa, and for everyone to benefit from it. -- Damon Albarn
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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
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The things that make me happy most are my family and working. -- Damon Albarn
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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. -- Damon Albarn
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As soon as it sounds fine, I'm on to the next thing, man. -- Damon Albarn
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If punk was about getting rid of hippies, then I'm getting rid of grunge. -- Damon Albarn
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China is one of those vast, continental conglomerates that ... I mean, if they were to start a tourist trade in China, they'd just bus people in from another province, you know what I mean? They're very self-contained. -- Damon Albarn
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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. -- Damon Albarn
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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
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Whether people like it or not, China is incredibly important to the future of mankind. For me, this is something that we all need to have intelligent discussions about in America, in Britain, in Europe. -- Damon Albarn
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There's need to be some sort of disturbance in your psyche for creativity to be sparked. -- Damon Albarn
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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. -- Damon Albarn
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I enjoyed history at school. I'd always had a sense of pagan England. -- Damon Albarn
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You know, there are many alter egos and Gorillaz is a collective of alter egos, really. I think anyone who gets involved in it has to sort of accept that nothing is really as it seems. -- Damon Albarn
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When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this. -- Damon Albarn
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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
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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. -- Damon Albarn
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Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling. -- Damon Albarn
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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? -- Damon Albarn
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Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world. -- Damon Albarn
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It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore. -- Damon Albarn
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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
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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
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The best way to get to know Africa is to go there and see what it is. To know somewhere that crazy and that magnificent, you have to spend some time among people, the rhythm of their lives. -- Damon Albarn
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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
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As a musician usually music is your way out. -- Damon Albarn
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Change terrifies people. They like new, but they don't like new with change. -- Damon Albarn
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there. -- Damon Albarn