Damon Albarn Quotes

Most songwriters who have been lucky enough to have their song on the radio or be heard widely don't know anything about science. The best songs have a strong dose of metaphor. Most songs about science don't have that. Like 'She Blinded Me With Science.' It's a stupid song, no offense to Thomas Dolby.

If you want to be a songwriter, you've got to obsess over it.

I write all of my music.

As a songwriter, I go into the studio, and I just try to write a great song.

As a songwriter, you try your best to write a good song, and you like nothing better than hearing a good song. It's easy to admire a great song, and you want to share out of enthusiasm.

I'll try not to let a day go by without making a song. I don't think I've created a lot of music.

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.

First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.

To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.

I'm basically a musician.

I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good.

The moment I wrote my first song, I got addicted.

Music is a passion of mine, so I also want to continue along that path, creating with my friends.

I'm just inspired by music.

I was someone who knew what they wanted to do for so long. I was always fascinated by music, always a student of pop.

My favorite thing to do is make music. It's what I spend most of my free time doing.

You're always thinking about making new music.

Really, music is what I'm interested in, and the lyric part of it came from just having to have something to sing.

We love what we do. We're passionate about making music and as composers; that's just who we are.

I love music in general. It's like girls and their clothes and shoes; when you love shoes, you love shoes. So, for me, I think it's a really dangerous thing to say I'm going to write the best dance song in the world.

I just do what I do. I like to make music.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.