David Bowie Quotes - Page 7

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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.

  David Bowie

  Thinking, Rocks, Focus

  Source: www.npr.org

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• One day in Berlin ... Eno came running in and said, 'I have heard the sound of the future.' ... he puts on 'I Feel Love', by Donna Summer ... He said, 'This is it, look no further. This single is going to change the sound of club music for the next fifteen years.' Which was more or less right.

  David Bowie

  Summer, Running, Years

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• We could steal time, just for one day
  We can be Heroes, for ever and ever
  What d'you say?

  David Bowie

  Hero, One Day, Stealing

  Song: Heroes, 1977

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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. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

  David Bowie

  Religious, Buddhist, Powerful

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• Touring with Iggy Pop was something to do. It was good fun. I got drunk a lot.

  David Bowie

  Fun, Drunk, Good Fun

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle. The rock stars have assimilated all kinds of philosophies, styles, histories, writings, and they throw out what they have gleaned from that.

  David Bowie

  Song, Stars, Philosophy

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.35, Melville House

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• I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12.

  David Bowie

  Children, Thinking, Media

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• Rock's always been the devil's music.

  David Bowie

  Rocks, Devil, Satanic

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• I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time.

  David Bowie

  Thinking, Long, Hip Hop

  Source: ca.complex.com

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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.

  David Bowie

  Stars, Kids, Rocks

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.47, Melville House

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• She's a total bam bam.

  David Bowie

  Compliment

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• You'd like to know me well, but I've got things inside my head that even I can't face.

  David Bowie

  Insanity, Faces, Wells

  Song: Janine, Album: Space Oddity, 2006

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• It's odd but even when I was a kid, I would write about 'old and other times' as though I had a lot of years behind me. Now I do, so there is a difference in the weight of memory.

  David Bowie

  Memories, Kids, Writing

  "Rock's Heathen Speaks". Livewire Interview, www.concertlivewire.com. June 16, 2002.

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• You know, I don't feel fifty. I feel not a day over forty-nine. It's incredible. I'm bouncy, I feel bouncy.

  David Bowie

  Fifty, Nine, Incredibles

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  David Bowie

  Mean, Love Is, Thinking

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.37, Melville House

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• Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one’s emotional plane.

  David Bowie

  Emotional, Demon, Planes

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• It's true - I am a bisexual. But I can't deny that I've used that fact very well. I suppose it's the best thing that ever happened to me.

  David Bowie

  Bisexual, Facts, Deny

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  David Bowie

  Intelligent, People, Judgement

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• I woke up one day and realized I was a closet hetero

  David Bowie

  One Day, Closets

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• The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation.

  David Bowie

  Real, Failure, Trying

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• [While] my life started taking on all the problems of addiction. So that took me off into an area where relationships were absolutely impossible to handle on any real level. . . . Even communicating with other people was impossible.

  David Bowie

  Real, People, Addiction

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I could never have done what I did without being involved with Lindsay Kemp's company.

  David Bowie

  Done, Company, Involved

  "David Bowie On The Ziggy Stardust Years: We Were Creating The 21st Century In 1971". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 11, 2016.

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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.

  David Bowie

  Lying, Writing, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For here
  Am I sitting in a tin can,
  Far above the world.
  Planet Earth is blue,
  And there's nothing I can do.

  David Bowie

  Blue, Tin Cans, Sitting

  "Song: 'Space Oddity'". 1969.

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• I made a more mature approach to industrial music.

  David Bowie

  Mature, Made, Approach

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