Dive into the witty world of Blur with these hilarious quotes that perfectly encapsulate the band's quirky spirit and Britpop essence. Get ready for a chuckle-filled journey!
"You don't have to go now, sit here and tell me how great I am!" - Dave.
"At the end of the day, not only do we write great songs, but we have a natural strangeness about us that makes us interesting." - Damon.
"The trick with Graham is to give him the illusion he's creating a racket." - Damon.
"We've always been too friendly, too clever and too good-looking for a lot of people." - Alex.
"Of course I'm a hedonist. What else is there to live for? The rest is just killing time." - Graham.
"I have to say that I find it easy to write a great hook. Sometimes I'll write something and say to myself, "It shouldn't be this easy". I don't know, the songs just come out." - Damon.
"You know, it occurred to me recently that Noel now lives in a big, big house, a very big house in the country. The old wonderwall's looking a bit sad too." - Alex.
"We're a very post-modern thing. There's a line in "Repitition", "Try try try, all things remain the same, so why try again?", adapted from Beckett. I sensed that one Christmas morning when I was 18 being chased across my old school field by my old girlfriend's irate father. I was drunk and had wanted to tell her I loved her. There's an enormous emotional reason behind that song, but does the world give a f***?" - Damon.
"People say we're the Rolling Stones and that Blur are the Beatles. We're the Stones AND the Beatles. They're the f***ing Monkees!" - Noel Gallagher.
"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.
"Oh dear, I think we're going to claim we've invented everything again." - Dave.
"I went to drama school so at some point I always felt I would act. I had to really, my mum was very upset when I left drama school. I found it very difficult the first week; then I just sort of allowed myself to relax and it was enjoyable after that. It's very difficult thing performing onstage compared to acting on screen." - Damon.
"I don't exist. Literally every day I read something that tells me I'm not real." - Damon.
"We offer everything that all other bands together offer - we've got it all." - Damon.
"I'd hate to be a rock band. It's like saying 'I only drink beer' when I like to drink sherry sometimes." - Damon in 1995 (he's changed his tune now though...).
"Blur aren't even one of those bands I detest." - Mat from Suede.
"I am rich. I f***ing am. There's no point in denying it." - Damon.
"I'm the George Harrison of the group. I don't do backing vocals because I prefer to look cool and smoke a fag." - Alex.
"We actually got more column inches than Bosnia" - Damon on the "Blur vs. Oasis" hype.
"Tortoise are an excellent band. It was a case of friends sending me compilation tapes and me going out and getting, like, albums by Slint - a band who really use guitars, which not many people do at the moment, especially in Britain. Here you'd be hard-pushed to find someone doing anything exciting with a guitar." - Graham.
"I love dogs, but I couldn't eat a whole one. Ha ha!" - Damon.
"I hate Bush." -Alex James.
"If I could be on the cover of Smash Hits with anyone it would be Damon Albarn... and my boyfriend is going to kill me when he sees this! I said in another interview Damon's really cute and he's getting paranoid about it. It's just a fantasy, like lots of girls fancy Brad Pitt. I'll probably never meet him, and someone told me that's just as well, 'cos Justine wouldn't be happy!" - Dannii Minogue.
"We love each other too much too get married." - Damon about Justine Frischmann.
"They [comets] just look good, a bit like the Spice Girls - they don't support any intelligent life." - Alex.
"What do we stand for? So we don't lie down all the time!" - Damon.
"I prefer Blur's attitude. They seem to be more level about it all. But I don't know any of them, I'm just talking about their image. I think Blur are more responsible for younger people - that's important." - Jason Orange (from Take That) comparing Blur and Oasis.
"I still tread in dog's mess occasionally." - Alex.
"Pop people, we're pop people." - Damon.
"When I think of the fans here in Canada ... I think of obsessive psychos." - Graham.
[What albums have you liked this year?] "Blur. Best album they've done in a while. Anything that's got more of Graham's guitar-playing, I'm bound to like. [You're quite similar as guitar players...] I watched him play at the Tibetan Freedom Festival, and he seemed to get lost in it all, and it was the most exciting thing I've seen. Yes please. I'd love to be compared to him." - Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead).
"Life's a sauna, and then you have a shower." - Alex.
"Don't talk to any funny men." - Graham.
On the Britpop days - "I was unbearable at that point, impossible to live with, it was disgusting behaviour; we knew we could get away with murder and that was a very bad signal to give out. We felt like we turned everything round and were being credited for everything that happened at the time, and we were drinking with people whose pictures we'd had up on our walls. That first flush of success was as good as it was ever going to get. Happy days." - Alex.
"I thought he (i.e. Damon) was the handsomest boy I'd ever seen in my life." Justine Frischmann.
"I've always been charmed by Liam." - Damon.
"I think art is unnecessary and too expensive. I would advise you to stop painting and start gardening or rock climbing, remember to eat lots of greens." - Alex.
"I'll have her (i.e. Justine Frischmann), I'm miles bettter than the idiot she goes home with every night. She told me I was the rudest bloke she'd ever met. She thinks I'm a scally but her curiousity will get the better of her." - Liam Gallagher.
"I used to go to loads of parties and when I got there Graham would be lying on the floor like a human doormat." - Damon.
"Seymour was the more radical, non-bite sized, unfriendly face of Blur" - Alex.
"Damon can't breakdance. Damon - terrible video [On your own], you can't wear a Kangol, please stop trying to breakdance. It's f**king horrendous. And I tell you what Damon, if you see me you can f**king look me in the eye and tell me that, cause it's f**kin' terrible. I hope the f**king tax man takes him for everything he's got." - Goldie.
"Melodic and slightly irrelevant." - Alex described Blur's sound of 1995.
"I like things to repulse people, to upset and move them. I don't want to give people an identity, I want to give them a crisis." - Damon.
"I've only ever been in love with one person and that's Justine." - Damon.
"I'm not the famous one." - Graham.
