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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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It's important that Oasis are rude about everybody and that they get drunk...Fair enough. It's nice, isn't it? But it's nothing to do with me. They came to see us in Manchester and they were very pleasant boys. Very nice. I'd like to see that as a quote. Oasis are very nice boys.
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As a musician usually music is your way out.
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I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.
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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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As soon as it sounds fine, I'm on to the next thing, man.
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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.
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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.
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We don't sit around thinking, 'This'll be great for kids' - it just happened to really appeal to them,
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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.
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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.