David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
I have absolutely no interest in rock and roll. I'm just being David Bowie. Mick Jagger is rock and roll. I mean, I go out and my music is roughly the format of rock and roll, I use the chord changes of rock and roll, but I don't feel I'm a rock and roll artist. I'd be a terrible rock artist, absolutely ghastly.
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For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before.
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I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.
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I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.
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I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a company in England. They owned a children's TV show which they put me in as a singer, and I was on the show for three years, and I left the show when I was 18 and started looking for a record contract.
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I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.
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Shame on me if I don't try to do more with what I have. It would be... a terrible thing to waste this opportunity to try to make a difference.
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The one thing that's terrible about traveling for fun is writing about it.
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The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn't attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together.
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Structure your presentation so that you appeal to the different interests of the different decision-makers involved.
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Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.
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I have no interest in being famous. I just want to make famous photographs.
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The first thing that struck me about contemporary music in general had been thatthere was not much interest in rhythm.
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Theres still so much interest in the Beatles and John and still so much mythology.
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A government that doesn’t work is in no one’s interest.
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The most terrible of all things is terror.
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I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.
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I advocate world government because I am convinced that there is no other possible way of eliminating the most terrible danger in which man has ever found himself. The objective of avoiding total destruction must have priority over any other objective.
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In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.
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The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness, to American presidential candidates in the year 2000 - to everyone who believes that wealth should be redistributed. And that message is clear and concise: Go to Hell.
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I just think people should invest in the world. Don't invest in fashion, but invest in the world.
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I have absolutely no interest in rock and roll. I'm just being David Bowie. Mick Jagger is rock and roll. I mean, I go out and my music is roughly the format of rock and roll, I use the chord changes of rock and roll, but I don't feel I'm a rock and roll artist. I'd be a terrible rock artist, absolutely ghastly.
