Quotes by Damon Albarn

About Damon Albarn:

Damon Albarn is an English musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. He is the lead vocalist of the alternative rock band Blur as well as co-founder, vocalist and principal songwriter and instrumentalist of the virtual band Gorillaz.
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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

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

Damon Albarn

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

Damon Albarn

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 lab...

Damon Albarn

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

I enjoyed history at school. I'd always had a sense of pagan England.

Damon Albarn

I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.

Damon Albarn

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 ...

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Damon Albarn

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

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

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

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.

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameDamon Albarn
  • DescriptionEnglish musician
  • BornMarch 23, 1968
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionGuitarist; Singer; Musician; Composer