Damon Albarn Quotes (28 Quotes)

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.

The things that make me happy most are my family and working.

We intend to do a massive world tour with Demon Days, but I won't be involved with it. It'll be all animation and big sound systems and stuff.

We're kind of working it out. You're going to see a lot of the guests on the album live on stage.

With Africa, we're talking about a nation battling through immense poverty and he can't quite get it together to sing a song. On that day he just seemed like an odd image.

Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.

It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.

I never really want to leave it as an inspiration I just can't get enough of it.

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?

It's a great tune, it's going to freak out DJs and programmers, ... There will be edits, I'm sure. If it was the first single out, it wouldn't have got played but seeing as it's the third single, hopefully everyone's bought the album, there's an acceptance that people like this and that's the way you have to play it. And that's the way to do it. Even with 'Feel Good,' American radio wanted a whole bunch of edits, but now that it's a massive hit, they've forgotten all those discussions.

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

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.

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.

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.

As soon as it sounds fine, I'm on to the next thing, man.

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

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.

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.

It's also why I don't print lyrics anymore. I figure if you can't get the feeling across adequately with the song, then you've failed anyway.

I feel John Peel was somebody that we could all trust. Throughout his life, he gave people a sense of a bigger world out there.

Manchester is the centre of Britain, we're only ever going to do this once so it makes sense to do it somewhere in the middle of the country. London gets all the gigs. It's time to do something a bit different to readdress the balance. We're very excited to be getting all the guests artists together in one place for these shows.

The concert was all about raising awareness, but Peter looked like he was having trouble raising his own awareness - he looked wasted,

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.

As a musician usually music is your way out.

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.

I can't really make another Blur record that's a big landscape sort of thing, due to my very basic guitar ability, ... I want to sing and play so it has to be three chords. I can only do three chords and not look at the guitar.

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.

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.