David Bowie Quotes
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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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I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.
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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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[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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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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I guess Ziggy would have been the perfect vehicle to have done with.
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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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She's a total bam bam.
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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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He says he's a beautician and sells you nutrition, and keeps all your dead hair for making underwear.
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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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Rock's always been the devil's music.
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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 once asked [John] Lennon what he thought of what I do. He said 'it's great, but its just rock and roll with lipstick on'.
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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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Make the best of every moment. We're not evolving. We're not going anywhere.
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Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.
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I got a bad migraine that lasted 3 years, and the pills I took made by fingers disappear.
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I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out of my league.
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I had enormous self-image, problems and very low self-esteem, which I hid behind obsessive writing and performing. It's exactly what I do now except I enjoy it now. I'm not driven like I was in my twenties. I was driven to get through life very quickly.
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The world that I inhabit in reality is probably very different world than the one people expect that I would be in. It is quite sedate. It's far removed from a lot of what they would feel to be the limousine traveling rock existence, or whatever.