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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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"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."
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"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."
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"Some people had attack dogs. Ghastek had attack lawyers."
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"All authority belongs to the people."
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"A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards."
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"Communism, I observed, "is a pile of wank."
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"Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee..."
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"Make them fear you. Machiavelli said it nearly six hundred years ago, but it's still true. Every ruler should strive for his people to love him. But if they cannot love you, then make them fear you. Love is better, but fear will do the job."
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"I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day."
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"An empty stomach is not a good political adviser."
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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."
Character
"Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world."
Music
"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."
Business
"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."
Intelligence
"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."
Stars
"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."
Time
"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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"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."
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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?"
Change
"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."
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