David Bowie Quotes

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David Bowie

Profession : Musician

Birth : January 8, 1947

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.

David Bowie

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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Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.

David Bowie

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

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It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

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Age doesn't bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It's the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.

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I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

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All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

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I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.

David Bowie

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

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I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me. I'm rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad!

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The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.

David Bowie

Fame itself... doesn't really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.

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As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn't really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn't have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself.

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I'm an early riser. I get up between five and six, have coffee, and read for a couple of hours before everyone else gets up.

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But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

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I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

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I'm not very articulate.

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I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.

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I never really felt like a rock singer or a rock star or whatever.

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