David Bowie Quotes

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David Bowie

Profession : Musician

Birth : January 8, 1947

When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn't live past 30.

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I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

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I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it's so essential that when I'm involved in the actual process, my so-called 'real life' becomes almost incidental, which becomes worrying.

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Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.

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Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

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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.

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Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.

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When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.

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I knew that I was 'interesting' at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage.

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I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.

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I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.

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I would drive to gigs in my tiny little Fiat. I would shoot up and down the M1 to play at various places.

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I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think.

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I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I'm a writer... I write.

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If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer.

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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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Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn't see a space in which we could get anything together.

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I think Mustique is Duchampian - it will always provide an endless source of delight.

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There are half a dozen subjects that I return to time and time again, and that doesn't bother me. Because most of my favorite writers do that, to hunt down the same topic or theme from different directions each time.

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I would dream. I focused all my attention on going to America. The subculture, James Dean, the rock n' roll, the beat writers.

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