David Bowie Quotes

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David Bowie

Profession : Musician

Birth : January 8, 1947

I guess it's flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing.

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I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

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All Montreal bands have around nine members, I believe.

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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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I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I'm proud of what I've done. In fact it's been a good ride.

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I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

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There are times when I prefer a cerebral moment with an artist, and I'll just enjoy the wit of a Picabia or a Duchamp. It amuses me that they thought that what they did would be a good way of making art.

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The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

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It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

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I was born in London 1947, after the war. A real wartime baby. I went to school in Brixton, and then I moved up to Yorkshire, which is in the north of England. I lived on the farms up there.

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I couldn't have written things like 'Low' and 'Heroes,' those particular albums, if it hadn't have been for Berlin and the kind of atmosphere I felt there.

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There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.

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I don't have a problem with ageing - in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily... it doesn't faze me at all.

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I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him.

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It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth.

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I was never particularly fond of my voice.

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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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I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance.

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I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents.

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I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me because it's not their profession to do that.

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