David Bowie Quotes

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David Bowie

Profession : Musician

Birth : January 8, 1947

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.

David Bowie

I've always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I've heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last.

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Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.

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That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true... Hell, don't pose me that one.

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To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.

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On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

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When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.

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I feel confident imposing change on myself. It's a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That's why I need to throw curve balls.

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I change my mind a lot. I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.

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Art was, seriously, the only thing I'd ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.

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Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

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When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

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The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

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I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.

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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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I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.

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You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

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What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That's what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.

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I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

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What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

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