Albarn Damon Quotes

#1. 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 - Author: Damon Albarn

#2. Oasis were like the bullies I had to put up with at school. - Author: Damon Albarn

#3. 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. - Author: Damon Albarn

#4. 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. - Author: Damon Albarn

#5. Change terrifies people. They like new, but they don't like new with change. - Author: Damon Albarn

#6. 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. - Author: Damon Albarn

#7. I used to go to work and take heroin in the studio and then stop when I came home, - Author: Damon Albarn

#8. If punk was about getting rid of hippies, then I'm getting rid of grunge. - Author: Damon Albarn

#9. 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. - Author: Damon Albarn

#10. I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there. - Author: Damon Albarn

#11. 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. - Author: Damon Albarn

#12. I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musician but also make some kind of cross-cultural link. I feel that I kind of at least touched on the possibilities of cross-cultural music, but it is a lifetime's work, and I don't profess to be anything other than a novice at it. - Author: Damon Albarn

#13. I can't be bothered anymore about giving songs titles. - Author: Damon Albarn

#14. Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that. - Author: Damon Albarn

#15. 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. - Author: Damon Albarn

#16. 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. - Author: Damon Albarn

#17. More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result. - Author: Damon Albarn

#18. As soon as it sounds fine, I'm on to the next thing, man. - Author: Damon Albarn

#19. 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. - Author: Damon Albarn

#20. 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. - Author: Damon Albarn

#21. Each individual has their own opinions about whether war is an answer to any problems. Personally I think it's a waste of time, but I think more importantly, that it's is an issue that we haven't had any say in. That's why I feel so strongly about it. I don't feel like we've really been given any choice in this matter. I think if you had a referendum tomorrow, Tony Blair would have no choice but to call off the war. - Author: Damon Albarn

#22. 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. - Author: Damon Albarn

#23. I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across. - Author: Damon Albarn

#24. 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. - Author: Damon Albarn

#25. I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country. - Author: Damon Albarn

#26. There's need to be some sort of disturbance in your psyche for creativity to be sparked. - Author: Damon Albarn

#27. 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. - Author: Damon Albarn

#28. I've always known I'm incredibly special. All my life. You know? It's not a big deal. - Author: Damon Albarn

#29. The things that make me happy most are my family and working. - Author: Damon Albarn

#30. It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore. - Author: Damon Albarn

#31. 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. - Author: Damon Albarn

#32. I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them. - Author: Damon Albarn

#33. Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world. - Author: Damon Albarn

#34. I enjoyed history at school. I'd always had a sense of pagan England. - Author: Damon Albarn

#35. The hell with your secrets," shouted Bonnie.
"Language, language! How about this: One of you has kept a secret all
their life, and is doing so even now. One of you is a murderer - and I am
not speaking of a vampire, or a mercy killing, or anything like that. And
then there is the question of the true identity of Sage - good luck on your
research there!One of you has already had their memory erased - and I don't mean
Damon or Stefan. And what about the secret, stolen kiss? And then there is
the question of what happened the night of the motel, that it seems that nobody
but Elena can recall. You might ask her sometime about her theories about
Camelot. - Author: L.J.Smith

#36. Damon: If you're going to be bad, be bad with a purpose or else you're not worth forgiving. - Author: Kevin Williamson

#37. Katherine," he said. He was still smiling.
"Yes." She leaned closer.
"Katherine ... "
"Yes, Damon?"
"Go to hell. - Author: L.J.Smith

#38. One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened. - Author: Damon Galgut

#39. You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library. - Author: Matt Damon

#40. There were only certain intimacies one could hope to survive. - Author: Damon Galgut

#41. You want a love that consumes you. You want passion and adventure, and even a little danger ... I want you to get everything you're looking for. But for right now, I want you to forget that this happened. Can't have people knowing I'm in town yet. Goodnight, Elena. - Author: L.J.Smith

#42. Haven't you learned by now?" Damon asked, glancing sharply at me. "Nothing's easy - Author: L.J.Smith

#43. That's simple. I want you to kiss me. So start there. - Author: Eden Finley

#44. Damon stared at me while Chuck read the message, a tendon in his neck flexing. "And we need more guns," said Chuck from between clenched teeth. - Author: Matthew Mather

#45. I think marrying somebody who's not a celebrity, it just takes a lot of the pressure off. - Author: Matt Damon

#46. For the first time in his life he understood why the Bible called sex "knowing". Everything was different. Now he knew Dante. He'd known Dante. And wonder of wonders, Dante had known him right back. - Author: Damon Suede

#47. I blame it on the heat. And Morgan had gone to India, and the heat had not undone him. He had remained respectable. - Author: Damon Galgut

#48. My heart goes out to the people of the city of Boston. My thoughts and prayers are with the families who lost loved ones in such a senseless and heartless way. - Author: Matt Damon

#49. As a result, he is hardly ever happy in the place where he is, something in him is already moving forward to the next place, and yet he is never going towards something, always away, away - Author: Damon Galgut

#50. I agree, and when the time is right, we'll be delighted to meet with him, Damon said. - Author: L.J.Smith

#51. Always be working on at least one thing you'd be jealous of. - Author: Damon Suede

#52. Sometimes diehard fans expect so much that they're never happy no matter what they get. - Author: Damon Lindelof

#53. You didn't feed from her," he said, and this was not a question.
"Swill poison? Not my kind of fun, little brother."
One corner of Stefan's mouth quirked up. He made no response to this, but simply looked at Damon with eyes that were ... knowing. Damon bridled.
"I told the truth!"
"Going to take it up as a hobby? - Author: L.J.Smith

#54. Life is about perspective and I have a different perspective from most. I am not trying to be in Hip Hop at 43 and looking like an old man. I always enjoyed business and my independence. I am an Entrepreneur. - Author: Damon Dash

#55. I've always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was always Tomorrowland. - Author: Damon Lindelof

#56. I like to believe that if you pay close attention to the sentences as they unfold, they will draw you in rather than pushing you away. - Author: Damon Galgut

#57. [Americans] can't understand that the water in our toilet is cleaner than 880 million have access to. - Author: Matt Damon

#58. There were some, naturally, who would understand, and he wrote for them, or for himself. Anyhow, some idealised reader who would accept everything, and forgive. - Author: Damon Galgut

#59. Damon needed to be healed. Not from his physical ailments, but from the wounds that came from the ones he loved always leaving him. - Author: Lexi Blake

#60. I think that there's not much point to being an actor if you're not enjoying it, so I try to be picky about roles I do like to go out for. - Author: Grey Damon

#61. If you can't help people, then what is the point of being successful? - Author: Matt Damon

#62. I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie. - Author: Matt Damon

#63. His moans are intoxicating, and I'm lost in everything Maddox. - Author: Eden Finley

#64. Stationery gets me excited because it has an individual character, unlike computers, which may be convenient but are generic and bland. - Author: Damon Galgut

#65. The newest song which the singers have,' they will be afraid that he may be praising, not new songs, but a new kind of song; and this ought not to be praised, or conceived to be the meaning of the poet; for any musical innovation is full of danger to the whole State, and ought to be prohibited. So Damon tells me, and I can quite believe him; - he says that when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them. Yes, - Author: Plato

#66. It's very frustrating [ to work under director's control], not just because you're getting rejected constantly, but also because you're at a time in your life where you have an enormous amount of creative energy, and there's no way to express it. That's why a lot of people get into drinking or drugs or whatever. - Author: Matt Damon

#67. You'll call me Damon. I see no need for dramatic titles. I, on the other hand will call you beautiful, lover, mine. I'll call you mine. (Damon to Serena) - Author: Maya Banks

#68. It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered. - Author: Damon Hill

#69. The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself. - Author: Damon Lindelof

#70. She wasn't afraid of him anymore. They weren't a centuries-old hunter and a seventeen-year-old human girl, sitting here at the edge of the world. They were just two people, Damon and Bonnie, who had to do the best they could. - Author: L.J.Smith

#71. I lean in and kiss his cheek. "I might keep you. You're good for my ego. - Author: Eden Finley

#72. Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me. - Author: Damon Galgut

#73. We live on a minute island of known things. Our undiminished wonder at the mystery which surrounds us is what makes us human. In science fiction we can approach that mystery, not in small, everyday symbols, but in bigger ones of space and time. - Author: Damon Knight

#74. Respect your body, and look forward to feeling healthy and clean. Your body deserves better than laboratory-made sweetness. - Author: Damon Gameau

#75. Babe."
I turn to Damon. Did he just call me -
"You weren't answering to your name. Matt's gone. You wanna …?" He tips his head in the direction of Noah's front door.
I scramble to my feet so fast everyone finds it comical, but I don't care. Damon and I will be back at my apartment in twenty minutes - tops. - Author: Eden Finley

#76. Even in one's most physical moments, the real craving was for love. - Author: Damon Galgut

#77. Maddy." My hand goes over his head, pushing the door closed so he can't escape, and he turns to face me.
This close, we share the same breath, and we're both breathing hard. His eyes are either hooded or narrowed; I can't tell if he's angry or turned on, but I don't give him a chance to let me know which, because I move in and fuse my mouth to his. He accepts it willingly - eagerly. - Author: Eden Finley

#78. In my later years I have sought to become simpler, straighter and purer in my handling of the language. I've had many writing heroes, writers who have influenced me. Of the ones still alive, I can think of E.B. White. I certainly admire the pure, crystal stream of his prose. When I was very young as a sportswriter I knowingly and unashamedly imitated others. I had a series of heroes who would delight me for a while and I'd imitate them
Damon Runyon, Westbrook Pegler, Joe Williams. - Author: Red Smith

#79. I always remember liking school. - Author: Damon Lindelof