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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

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Damon Albarn
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: March 23
Composer
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London
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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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Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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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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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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Danger Mouse is now working on a bunch of other records, translating his ideas about remixing into all sorts of other projects.
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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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I've always known I'm incredibly special. All my life. You know? It's not a big deal.
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Change terrifies people. They like new, but they don't like new with change.
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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.
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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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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
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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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Oasis were like the bullies I had to put up with at school.
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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.
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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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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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There's need to be some sort of disturbance in your psyche for creativity to be sparked.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics
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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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