David Bowie Quotes
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I guess Ziggy would have been the perfect vehicle to have done with.
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Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.
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You'd like to know me well, but I've got things inside my head that even I can't face.
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I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.
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Bully for you, chilly for me, got to get a raincheck on pain.
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I have to take total control myself. I can't let anybody else do anything, for I find that I can do things better for me. I don't want to get other people playing with what they think that I'm trying to do.
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Don't let me hear you say life takes you nowhere, angel.
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A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle. The rock stars have assimilated all kinds of philosophies, styles, histories, writings, and they throw out what they have gleaned from that.
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Rock's always been the devil's music.
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I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.
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[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz.
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You can't go on stage and live - it's false all the way. I can't stand the premise of going out in jeans and a guitar and looking as real as you can in front of 18,000 people. I mean, it's not normal!
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I think the first song I ever wrote ... was called "Can't Help Thinking About Me." That's an illuminating little piece, isn't it?
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I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.
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She's a total bam bam.
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I ask for so little.Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave
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Ground control to Major Tom.
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He says he's a beautician and sells you nutrition, and keeps all your dead hair for making underwear.
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I had a fantasy that i'd drift up to Scotland and spend my life as a faux bodhisattua.
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I've always been very chauvinistic, even in my boy-obsessed days. But I was always a gentleman. I alwaysd treated my boys like real ladies. Always escorted them properly and, in fact, I suppose if I were a lot older - like 40 or 50 - I'd be a wonderful sugar daddy to some little queen down in Kensington. I'd have a houseboy named Richard to order around.
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People don't get a chance to think, "Why am I a consumer?" Because the decisions come at them so fast and furiously, they're not [even] given time to think, I am a consumer.
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If I put faith in medication, if I can smile a crooked smile, if I can talk on television, if I can walk an empty mile.
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My son's full real name is Duncan Zowie Haywood. As a toddler he was called by his second name Zowie. But it was such an identifiable name during the Seventies that if I called him loudly in public places, everyone would turn to stare, so I started calling him Joey to take the pressure off. It has the same sound and number of syllables as Zowie. And Joe stuck for most of his childhood. Now he has reverted to his real name, Duncan. Haywood was my father's name.
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I was always accused of being cold and unfeeling. It was because I was intimidated about touching people.