Damon Albarn People Quotations

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.

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

The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie

In Africa, as resources inevitably disappear, 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.

The best way to get to know Africa is to go there and see what it is. To know somewhere that crazy and that magnificent, you have to spend some time among people, the rhythm of their lives.

Change terrifies people. They like new, but they don't like new with change.

In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.

Whether people like it or not, China is incredibly important to the future of mankind. For me, this is something that we all need to have intelligent discussions about in America, in Britain, in Europe.

I feel John Peel was somebody that we could all trust. Throughout his life, he gave people a sense of a bigger world out there.

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.

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.