David Bowie Quotes
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I'm not sure that an art career would have any benefit for me; I'm not sure it's what I want. I don't think I want to be a designer-rock artist.
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It's odd but even when I was a kid, I would write about 'old and other times' as though I had a lot of years behind me. Now I do, so there is a difference in the weight of memory.
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My work is really the accumulation of these different moods that I've had throughout my life and where they've taken me. I start looking back, and I think, I've actually created a life out of all this, out of these changes of mood. They've pushed me through all these years, and I seem to have a semblance of a life, and if I look very carefully, I can see some thematic design to it. There's some continuity.
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I can't keep my fingers out of any pies.
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I don't like talk and I don't like talkers. Like Ma Barker. That's what she always said, 'Ma Barker doesn't like talk and she doesn't like talkers.' She just sat there with her gun.
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I heard the news today, oh boy.
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I think I quite desperately wanted to have that kind of special companionship [like marriage ] . . . a special relationship, yet I hid from it for many, many years and pretended to be cynical about it.
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There seem to be a lot of black artists making very good videos that I'm surprised aren't being used on MTV.
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They're the salt of the earth, those girls. They don't sit each night and compare notes on groups, criticising lyrics, asking if it's valid. They just play the record... yeah, and maybe they dance. I love them. I love them dearly
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David Bowie emerged as a rock star in the late '60s. And as Ken Tucker wrote, "In the face of the hippy era's sincerity, intimacy and generosity, Bowie presented irony, distance and self-absorption. His song 'Changes' announced the arrival of a new counterculture," unquote.
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I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.
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I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.
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The media is either our salvation or our death.
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I guess, people like myself and Roxy Music that had a different agenda about taking up music.
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I guess, - a greater number of the 26 or so albums that I've made are known in Europe than they are in America.
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It's true - I am a bisexual. But I can't deny that I've used that fact very well. I suppose it's the best thing that ever happened to me.
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It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.
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I don't live for the stage. I don't live for an audience.
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I'm very shy. That's probably one of the reasons I got so heavily into drugs.
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Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.
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And you, You can be mean And I, I'll drink all the time 'Cause we're lovers, And that is a fact Yes we're lovers, And that is that
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I'm wary of the word glam because I think that became the all-inclusive term with for any bloke with lipstick on, which is fine, you know, and that's what it is when it comes down to the public level.
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Never bored, so I'll never get old
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Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence.