Damon Albarn – Quotes

I’m not really one

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 Damon Albarn

Trying to write music

Trying to write music that’s sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it’s such a long stretch of time. 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 label like this Damon Albarn

I used to go

I used to go to work and take heroin in the studio and then stop when I came home. Damon Albarn

Danger Mouse is now

Danger Mouse is now working on a bunch of other records, translating his ideas about remixing into all sorts of other projects. Damon Albarn

I used to be

I used to be younger than my producers but now I’m older than my producers and I think that works for me, that works better cause you get a good kick up the … everyday. Damon Albarn

The cartoon is a

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’m slightly ambivalent to

I’m slightly ambivalent to the whole relationship between the whole advertising world and music. I think sometimes it works and sometimes it’s a really bad mismatch. I think on this occasion its fine because the iPod is like your own mini-library and that can’t be a bad thing. It promotes eclecticism and that’s very much … Read more

I can’t be bothered

I can’t be bothered anymore about giving songs titles. Damon Albarn

Well, as resources inevitably

Well, as resources inevitably disappear [in Africa], people have to make do with a lot less. You have to be much more ingenious with a lot less, and accept that you can’t get your perfect tuna sandwich on a street corner. Damon Albarn