Damon Albarn
Damon Albarn
Damon Albarn, OBE,is an English musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. He is the lead singer of the alternative rock band Blur as well as co-founder, vocalist, principal songwriter, and instrumentalist of the virtual band Gorillaz...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth23 March 1968
CityWhitechapel, England
world futuristic western
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.
fun believe government
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.
mtv paper way
My guaranteed way of sending myself into deep depression is to read music trade papers and watch MTV.
crazy people way
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.
school oasis bully
Oasis were like the bullies I had to put up with at school.
way musician music-is
As a musician usually music is your way out.
special bigs deals
I've always known I'm incredibly special. All my life. You know? It's not a big deal.
people
Change terrifies people. They like new, but they don't like new with change.
life people addiction
In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.
heart long speak
Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.
artists bit centre excited gets guests london manchester middle somewhere time together
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.
basic blur chords due guitar landscape record sing sort three
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.
history pagan
I enjoyed history at school. I'd always had a sense of pagan England.
future incredibly people whether
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.