Damon Albarn Quotes

It was a really strange way that I came into music. Once I gave voice to it, the pit of emotions that I guess I knew was inside of me for a long time, the stream never really stopped.

I've always made music from the heart, and that's what I do.

I have never been able to separate - nor have I wanted to - my personal love and desire for truth, passion, and understanding from my lyrics.

Of course I have bills to pay, but at the same time, it's more about the passion and the love, and I think that's where music should come from, the heart, not necessarily just to cash a check.

To me, that's what music entails. It's freedom, it's having the undeniable confidence to express yourself in a way that you know is right.

As a composer, I'm basically trying to represent myself through my music in an honest way.

Here's the thing: we don't write music for a universal statement; we just share our experiences. And that's all it is. It's always raw and very authentic.

I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.

My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

I'm basically just a normal girl from West London who speaks from her heart and who loves music.

Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.

Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life.

Music is an emotion, and I put it out there.

My heart and soul is still music.

My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.

Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

Nothing sounded as sincere as Nirvana's music. It took a long time for me to accept that any other music could be good in other ways. Including my own.

Most of the songs I wrote are personal.

Music for me has always been something that is directly connected to my heart.

I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out.

As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally.

I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.

I think I sound like a fella who's always making a plea through his music. Sort of a plea of sincerity.