David Bowie Quotes
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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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Oooh, fashion, we are the goon squad and were coming to town, beep beep.
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Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.
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Trying to tart the rock business up a bit is getting nearer to what the kids themselves are like, because what I find, if you want to talk in the terms of rock, a lot depends on sensationalism and the kids are a lot more sensational than the stars themselves.
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As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?
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The coming together of people I find obscene as a principle. It is not human. It is not a natural thing as some people would have us believe.
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My particular thing is discovering what can be done with media and how it can be used. You can't draw people together like one big huge family, people don't want that. They want isolation or a tribal thing.
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I guess a certain contingent of the musicians in London at the beginning of the '70s were fed up with denim and the hippies. And I think we kind of wanted to go somewhere else.
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I always write well in New York.
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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 don't like people probing into my life, so I reveal as little as possible or lie about it as much as need be so as to give them something to write about.
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But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.
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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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Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.
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I'm drawn between the light and dark.
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I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.
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If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.
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I would like to believe that people knew what they were fighting for and why they wanted a revolution, and exactly what it was within that they didn't like.
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When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all the artforms are the same in the end.
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People are always throwing things at me that I've said and I say that I didn't mean anything.
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Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.'
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My sexual nature is irrelevant. I'm an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself.
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I think that the history of rock could be recycled in a different way and brought back into focus without the luggage that comes along with it.
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Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold. I will buy a chair for my house. What style of chair are you gonna buy? Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived. I mean, why bother choosing a chair because it looks a certain way? Because there's gonna be something about that chair that says something about you.