Quotes

Note from the authors: We have attempted to supply unusual or uncommon quotes, but in our efforts, we found that some common quotes were too good to pass up. Warning: We may have stolen from you or your family, and we apologize in advance. If you take personal offense, we will meet you and your mamma at the flag pole tomorrow at 3.

"Oh dear, I think we're going to claim we've invented everything again." David

"I haven't worked out yet whether the secret to a happy life is getting rid of your mucky habits or doing them more." Damon

"I think bass players should be cool; it doesn't matter if they can play." Alexander

"I LOVE BLUR" Wendy

"I get to drive about like really fast and do skids and things. Brilliant." Damon on his role in "Face"

"This beats recording a session at the BBC. The food's better for a start. Where did you find this lovely mushroom pate?" Damon on recording at Peel Acres

On Damon's second tattoo.... "It's a blue ring." Damon
"It's a Dunkin' Doughnut." Graham

"I've gone Ralph Lauren mad. Well you've got to haven't yer? It's about half the price here (in Los Angeles)." Damon 1995

On Blur (the album) and its fate in America..... "I'd really like this to be a relatively successful record here- because it would be a good British record doing well, as opposed to the fucking shit that does well here." Damon

"We're a teenybop band in Spain; we're kind of an intellectual art-wank band over here (America); in Britain, we've got a fairly wide demographic; in France, we're tres cool; and we're big in Japan, fuck knows why." Alex

"Music meant more to me when I was fourteen than it does now. Music's more alive to you then, it's such an important part of building your identity." Alex

"We work with a brass section and one of the horn players was talking about substitutions the other day. Whatever! Eventually, you find out it's stuff you know anyway- it's just that there are proper names for it all." Alex

"It's unique to America, this kind of running around in circles and hitting each other while a band plays. I'll never understand that behaviour- but whatever gets you through the day. I don't have any contempt for them as long as they buy our record." Dave

"Another sunny day in pop." Alex

"Oasis are the Spice Girls on drugs." Damon

"We don't get out of bed for less than five million." Damon

"Oh dear, that's really naff. I'm not that much of a shag-athelete, I'm really not." Alex

"Dave is learning to fly. He's almost a pilot. Who can say that out there? No one. He's almost a pilot!" Damon

"I seem to have developed a hatred of logic and a love of pure expression. That may be kind of childish, but I don't care." Graham

"Of course I'm a hedonist. What else is there to live for? The rest is just killing time." Graham

"Science hasn't been hip for a long time. It'd be good if everyone could point to the Pole Star at a certain time every day. It'd be good to have a feeling of universal orientation." Alex

"You can tell everything about a hotel room from what sort of Corby trouser press it's got. If it's got a wall-mounted Formica 2000. then forget it. But if it's the free-standing 3000 with electric timer, then you're there, you've made it." Alex

"Silliness is an unavoidable state of being. When you're having to deal with something where you've become the product of a product of an even larger product. it does reduce you to buffoonery. It doesn't mean that you don't know you're doing it, though." Damon

"We generally pay people to order other people around now." Dave

"I'm one of those people who's never too sure of who they really are, so one has to try to be everything all at once. I'm terribly insecure! It's as though I have to feel liked. But courting the media is not something I'm conscious of doing." Damon

On a rumor that he was spotted running round Camden with his trousers around his ankles..."I had my trousers down? No, I walked into a wall, and had a Tom and Jerry bump on my head, but I did that in the privacy of someone's house. I have very loose-fitting trousers, you know... and sometimes they come down. But that's not particularly weird, is it?" Damon

On his invitation to a party given by Tony Blair...."I left a message at the House of Commons saying, 'Dear Tony, I've become a communist. Enjoy the schmooze, comrade. Love, Damon." Damon

"I don't think I'm capable of being particularly cool. I don't have that anal retentiveness. I speak before I think a lot of the times. It's documented in my school reports. I always used to put my hand up before I knew the answer. These things don't leave you, unfortunately, they just have greater implications in your life." Damon

"There's always a Jimmy from "Quadrophenia" lookalike at our gigs. Last night's was brilliant. Looked like him, talked like him, wore exactly the same clothes. Never seen the film!" Dave

In answer to the question, "Are you getting a lot of young female fans in the States?"....."Not really. Well, you're going to get that. I mean, I'm going to get that while I still look the way I do, regardless of what I do. I know that I don't get taken as seriously as I would, looking the way I do, but I can't help that." Damon

On what he's been writing lately (c.1998)..."Melancholy little folk songs." Graham

"It seems that Damon and I are going to be in each other's lives musically forever, in some way or other. Whether it's with Blur or without Blur or sort of like the Old Gits, probably. Which is quite an amusing thought. We just get on very well, especially musically. If, when Blur splits up, every so often we'll probably do something together, be involved in some way. But I definitely want my own thing. And I meet a lot of people who are interested in whatever music is inside me personally. It's taken me a long time to gain the confidence to even entertain that thought." Graham

"We're the woo-hoo band." Graham

"I'm a hedonist who doesn't break the speed limit." Damon

In answer to the question, "Whereabouts is the British music scene at the moment?"....."Well, at the moment, it's mainly in Britain." Alex

"It's a very exotic location, innit, Australia? It does make you think because we are standing upside down." Alex

After a girl gives him orchids....."We have to check them for clocks. You never know what some fans are like. They might want to blow you up. But I think these are genuine flowery articles." Graham

"I was really into 'Villa Rosie.' I thought it had a bit of a wink about it." Graham

When asked "Is this the last time you'll play a lot of these [singles]"...  "Not for me.  I'll still be in the Blur tribute band.   Dave Rowntree's The Blurs.  Dave Rowntree's Blur Experience.  We'll be playing Greenland."  Dave

"One morning on the US tour, we all had a black eye.   Within a three-day period we'd all managed to twat each other." Dave

"Everyone in pop is in danger of looking like knobheads in six months' time.  I only want to look part-knobhead." Damon

"Touring's a dream.  A different place every day, free beer and drugs, screaming girls.  And you feel.. shit, actually, most of the time." Alex

"I was always a workaholic.  I just didn't have any work." Damon

"Damon fans are fine.  Alex fans are a bit mad.   Graham fans are fucking mad.  I seem to attract total nutters." Graham

"All of us have got one sister but none of us has brothers. So we look after each other like brothers." Dave

"I don't do backing vocals.  I prefer to look cool and smoke a fag." Alex

"When I was 13 I was walking around quite a hard comprehensive school with a violin, an earring and a Karl Marx book.  Now I walk around in trainers and a Chelsea top." Damon

"Most of America probably doesn't even listen to music.   They just go raccoon hunting." Graham

"I'm rich. I fucking am.  There's no point denying it." Damon

"My music teacher was sent to prison for being a buttock fondler.  Which might explain why I never took to music lessons." Alex

"We used to drink so much.  I'd keep a bottle of wine by my amp and swig my way through it." Graham

"I could have earned a pretty good living out of being a computer programmer.  I'm just as good at that as I am at this." Dave

"We've always been too friendly, too clever and too good-looking for a lot of people." Alex

"The trick with Graham is to give him the illusion that he's making a racket." Damon

"Damon? What can I say?  He's a confrontational, objectionable, bit headed, arrogant... beauty." Alex

"If someone's horrible to you, be really nice to them.   Then they'll feel bad." Alex

"I think Dave naked might be a little alarming, but thankfully I haven't had that pleasure." Damon

"Being run over is quite scary, actually - you have that split second when you say 'Oooh, crikey!' shut your eyes, grit your teeth and bounce off the bonnet.  I had to ask a copper if I was dead." Graham

On Graceland.  Graham found it "quite tasteful, really, in a way.  I don't think it was too far removed from the kind of obsessive weird crap that I have in my house."

"If you want to impress a girl, just say barometer." Dave

"Pop people, we're pop people." Damon

"I still tred in dog's mess occasionally." Alex

 

 

 

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