As a musician usually music is your way out.

Meaning of the quote

What Damon Albarn is saying is that for many musicians, music is a way for them to escape or get away from their problems or challenges. Music can be like a door that allows them to leave their worries behind and focus on something they love. When musicians play or create music, it can be a release and a way for them to find peace and happiness, even if just for a little while.

About Damon Albarn

Damon Albarn is an English singer, musician, songwriter, and record producer best known as the frontman of the band Blur and the co-creator of the virtual band Gorillaz. He has had a prolific and diverse career, contributing to numerous musical projects and genres over the years.

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It’s not like my old self – I’m not in character anymore, I’m me. I’m not hiding behind that anymore.

Damon Albarn

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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

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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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You know, there are many alter egos and Gorillaz is a collective of alter egos, really. I think anyone who gets involved in it has to sort of accept that nothing is really as it seems.

Damon Albarn

British musician

The things that make me happy most are my family and working.

Damon Albarn

British musician

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

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Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that’s being made all over the world.

Damon Albarn

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And there are no stars and that you’re never really sure who’s doing what and what voice is what and, you know what I mean? It’s supposed to be quite elusive.

Damon Albarn

British musician

As a musician usually music is your way out.

Damon Albarn

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As soon as it sounds fine, I’m on to the next thing, man.

Damon Albarn

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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we’re getting much more interesting art as a result.

Damon Albarn

British musician

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.

Damon Albarn

British musician

I hope we can keep doing it this way – making music and art that are pure products of our influences while not really having to let the whole celebrity side of it get in the way. Then maybe more virtual bands will come out and do the same thing.

Damon Albarn

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The whole period has taught me that I enjoy being part of an ensemble rather than just a front man. Don’t get me wrong – I enjoy that too, but I get more enjoyment out of really listening to everyone.

Damon Albarn

British musician

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

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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.

Damon Albarn

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I can’t be bothered anymore about giving songs titles.

Damon Albarn

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