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
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.
great music pop
I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.
hang people purely resonates rover
I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.
allow less older time urge
I don't need to be a frontman all the time, and in fact, the older I get, the less of an urge it is inside me to play that role. I've still got it inside me, and I do occasionally allow it out.
bus people tourist trade
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.
longest plates
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.
art bands celebrity english-musician hope influences maybe music products pure side virtual
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.
english-musician sounds
As soon as it sounds fine, I'm on to the next thing, man.
ordeal whenever
Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling.
figuring music musician novice possibilities profess satisfy spent touched work
I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musician but also make some kind of cross-cultural link. I feel that I kind of at least touched on the possibilities of cross-cultural music, but it is a lifetime's work, and I don't profess to be anything other than a novice at it.