David Bowie Quotes
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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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Hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand and glue.
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Elvis was a major hero of mine. I was probably stupid enough to believe that having the same birthday as him actually meant something.
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I don't expect the human race to progress in too many areas. However, having a child with an ear infection makes one hugely grateful for antibiotics.
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I think I am a lot more relaxed about what I have or haven't done.
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You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.
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However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.
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Love is every type of relationship that you think of... I'm sure it means relationship, every type of relationship that you can think of.
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Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.
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My sexual nature is irrelevant. I'm an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself.
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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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For here Am I sitting in a tin can, Far above the world. Planet Earth is blue, And there's nothing I can do.
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I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.
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Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left.
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I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.
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Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression?
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I have found myself deeply, deeply intrigued by the ska-punk scene. It's such an expressive form of popular music, it's so real, it's got so much life: it's the most vital music in the world.
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The truest form of any form of revolutionary left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E.E. Cummings, and Allan Ginsberg's period. Excuse me but that was where it was at. The hippies, I'm afraid, don't know what's happening.
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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'm bemused by the whole Robbie Williams aspect of British pop. Posh Spice? It all looks like cruise ship entertainment to me.
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There's something about the style of living in the country that they feel, "This is what represents me." So style is about the philosophy of how we create our civilization.
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Elvis is English, and climbs the hills. Can't tell the bullshit from the lies.
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I believe in Beatles, I believe my little soul has grown.
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I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived.