I THINK CHRIS EVANS IS THE BIGGEST WANKER THAT EVER LIVED. Print that in capitals please. ~ 1997
I like it when girls go "Fuck me, fuck me, fuck me."
I crapped on my jumper. I wanted to poo and I forgot it was tied around my
waist. I had to throw it into someone's garden.
Everyone, wherever they are in the world, knows what "la la la" means.
I used to around and see himand he'd play this weird stuff that was endless piano, with no singing in it at all. It was just nuts. ~ on Damon, 1994.
Do I scare people? Perhaps a bit. Alex does, too, although in a
different way...he's just so laidback. I'm not. The other week, my current
girlfriend was giving me a hard time, and I sat against the wardrobe, and I
just started bashing my head against it till I started getting fuzzy vision.
I've always been hideously noisy onstage - that's where I get my own
back.
If he (Damon) goes on about football and page three girls that means we
all get associated with it. I hate football and I hate page three girls, but
people always want to hear Damon's opinion.
Damon wasn't liked at school and I thought he was a vain wanker.
The first thing Damon ever said to me was that his shoes were more expensive
than mine. Eventually he went of to work in drama school in London ~1991
You become totally aware of your every action. It's a very weird thing not to
be able to walk to the shops without thinking of yourself as the guitarist
from Blur walking to the shops ~1991
I think I just got off on his total mad-headedness. ~ on Damon, 1991.
We're very dissatisfied with anything that isn't slightly....twisted. I like
people like John Lennon who are stars in a totally anti-star way ~1991
We're quite strict about being musically correct, using the right chords ~1991
I play Gibson Les Paul guitar live because it's reliable, powerful, strong
enough, and heavy enough to work really well and survive ~1991
I don't use much vibrato ~1991
We used to hang around the music block, mainly because that was where the lads never went. They'd be off on the field playing football and beating people up. I suppose we were the school freaks in a way but never had long hair, nothing like that. ~ 1994
Damon? Sexy? He's about as sexy as a stuffed fish, pal ~1994
Jack Daniels makes us all puke ~1994
Of course, I'm a headonist. What else is there to live for? ~1994
Japanese audiences dye their hair blond, dress in Adidas zip-ups and
Fred Perry tops-and then they put ties on as well ~1994
I hate the video clip for 'Country House'. I love the song but the association
with it becomes Page three and Benny Hill instead of Blur ~1995
Of course, I'm a hedonist. What else is there to live for? The rest is just killing time.
It was actually the first time we'd ever played the Dublin Castle. We'd done the Falcon a lot, but never there. It was too small to do anything but play the really punky songs and probably because it was so different from Mile End it made it so brilliant. I had a great time. We all did. ~on secret pub gig 1995
Oh, the guys do have this one obsession. I have to draw the logo on so many boys' bums, on their jeans pockets. It's outrageous. ~1990
Japanease audiances dye their hair blond, dress in Adidas zip-ups and Fred Perry tops - and then they put ties on as well. It's very strange..... ~1994
When we finsh one album, we immediately start thinking of the next one ~1995
I don't feel famous at all. I've noticed it, and I suppose it's become
an effort to be unfamous ~1995
We used to drink so much. I'd have a bottle of under the chair my amp was
sat on, and I'd swig my way through that ~1995
It's a lot rawer, it may shock some people, but a lot of people will
really love it. It's a lot to do with our 'world' ~ Graham talking about the
album 'blur' ~ 1997
I don't feel maous at all. I've noticed it, and I suppose it's become an effort to be unfamous. It's crude, but the idea I have of myself is of someone who's getting pints of milk on the corner in the morning.
Records
Leisure
For the backwards guitar in 'sing' I sat down and worked the whole song out backwards, turned the tape over and played it live. It's a fuking complicated way. We're very organic about that though. I won't have things sampled, then they flip it on the computer - I much prefer to do it live. ~1991
Sing
Even people who hated us would come rushing up and say, 'What was that song?'. ~1995
Modern life is rubbish
'It was horrible trying to cram the tracks on....It could have been an 18-track album.' ~1993
Turn it up
When we wrote it, it seemed like a good jangly pop song. But it turned out to be an MOR rock song. It didn't have any pecularities. So we were turned off by it. ~1995
Parklife
Sophisticated. We're becoming more interested in not being complacent about sounds. There'll be unconventional guitar sounds - in every song it wont just be fuzzy strumming guitars. ~1991
On the Japaneas version of the 'Parklife' CD, the dog's eyes light and when you open it.....it BARKS! ~1994
This is a low
I thought it was a gouched-out song. ~1994
Bank Holiday
The first time we recorded it was a Radio One session for Mark Goodie (in July 1993). We hadn't really written it properly. ~1994
The Great Escape
It's not a concept album, but our last two albums have had common thread. All the songs have been about some condition, some society, weather it be paranoia or....anything. This one seems to be about corruption and prozac. ~1995
It's quiet a doom-laden album in areas. But it's like, we're serious about the humour. Serious about being funny. I don't blame them for it, but people do listen pretty straight faced to our music when they first hear it. There's a kind of sinister-ness to it, which is meant to be funny, a lot of it.
Country House
You think it's a bit madness and a bit Beatles? Maybe you're right. There's certainly something in it that pulls you in. There's two things going on at the same time. It sounds really simple, but it's not the sort of thing that anyone could do. Blur songs aren't as straighfroward as everyone thinks. ~1995