Robert Del Naja Quotes

Robert Del Naja

Profession : Artist

Birth : January 21, 1965

After touring an album, you have this strange void that follows it, where you feel slightly displaced, like you've just finished with the circus and you've got to find a new job. You think, OK, what shall we do next.

Robert Del Naja

In my opinion, Israel has the right to its security in as much as the Palestinians have the right to resist occupation. Israel has the power in this perpetual stalemate, as it also has the power to break it and begin a meaningful peace process.

Robert Del Naja

Nostalgia is a strange and powerful emotion. As much we try and fight it and fight ourselves, it's very hard not to.

Robert Del Naja

As human beings, we create belief systems that make us feel happy with the choices we make. You'd have a lot of unhappy people regretting everything if they didn't create the belief system in which they could explain all their choices and feel like they've done the right thing.

Robert Del Naja

Massive Attack has always been more of an experiment than a band or even a collective.

Robert Del Naja

I remember being given a demo of the 'World Wide Web' at Peter Gabriel's studio in the early 90s, and I had zero comprehension that I was staring into the future. I was just happy with my pager and teletext on the TV.

Robert Del Naja

I just get involved in things when people come to me: I'm not a musician-slash-activist, that's not the word.

Robert Del Naja

It's good to learn and be engaged and listen to people, see what's going on. But that's not the motivator: if I was a political person, I'd have gone into politics.

Robert Del Naja

When you're on tour. there's a contract between you and the audience: do what you want, as long as you do what we want. You're having to play with the past at every gig.

Robert Del Naja

You can quite happily exist in your own version of the world built around you, which you can build for yourself.

Robert Del Naja

We resurrect 'Mezzanine' with a promise that we can break free from the data of the past and escape the feedback loops.

Robert Del Naja

It's been well documented how we start to believe in our virtual or digital selves more than our real selves, but it's strange to think that human behaviour hasn't really changed at all since that legend was created.

Robert Del Naja

I stopped feeling nostalgia for the moment because I imagine myself looking back on it from the future, which really freaks me out.

Robert Del Naja

I don't think I've got a problem with nostalgia, because a lot of the time things are self-referential.

Robert Del Naja

I guess that is what I remember of 'Mezzanine': it was a proper struggle.

Robert Del Naja

I mean, I love buying albums, I'm obsessed, but now you just click 'add', don't you? And when do you actually listen to anything? You know, unless you're in the car or you've got time to do that, it's just not the same world any more in terms of concentration.

Robert Del Naja

I'm not a total pessimist; I'm excited by the future as well.

Robert Del Naja

I'm really excited by science and technology and the whole social media thing. I think it's fascinating. But at the same time I'm wary of bureaucratic systems and managers.

Robert Del Naja

If the EU and the US pressured Israel for change and forced the end of the blockade, we might get somewhere. That pressure should also come culturally, with from without and within.

Robert Del Naja

There's a rumour that we actually make all our albums in the last six months before they're released and the rest of it is procrastination.

Robert Del Naja