Category - Damon Albarn

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Damon Albarn

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.

– Damon Albarn

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

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 it.

– Damon Albarn

Damon Albarn

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.

– Damon Albarn

Damon Albarn

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.

– Damon Albarn

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

Damon Albarn

I’m English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can’t really escape that – it’s there.

– Damon Albarn

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.

– Damon Albarn

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

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

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

Damon Albarn

No, every album is something like a snapshot. It only shows one moment in time. It shows what we feel and think right at that point in time, nothing more and nothing less.

– Damon Albarn

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