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English
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Musician
January 8
, 1947 -
January 10
, 2016
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Quotes about David Bowie
I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.
David Bowie
Know
,
Boring
,
Promise
,
Here
,
Where
I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.
David Bowie
Freedom
,
Find
,
Only
,
Eccentricity
Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.
David Bowie
Tomorrow
,
Coming
,
Hear
,
Who
,
Those
I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.
David Bowie
Man
,
Superman
,
Potential
,
Stone
,
Living
I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.
David Bowie
Water
,
Famous
,
Star
,
Just
,
Add
,
Stir
The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
David Bowie
Journey
,
Truth
,
Time
,
Truth Is
,
Same
As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn.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.
David Bowie
Myself
,
Being Myself
,
Doing
,
Nobody
,
Shy
All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.
David Bowie
Art
,
You
,
Questions
,
Humanity
,
Focused
I change my mind a lot. I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.
David Bowie
Change
,
Mind
,
Liar
,
Say
,
Agree
,
Very
Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don't think I'm camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage.
David Bowie
Good
,
Home
,
Think
,
Person
,
Become
,
Stage
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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.
David Bowie
Change
,
Myself
,
Fun
,
Looking
,
Confident
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
Fear
,
Great
,
Isolation
,
Kind
,
Worldview
There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.
David Bowie
Words
,
Me
,
Want
,
Say
,
Way
,
Always
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.
David Bowie
Perspective
,
Curiosity
,
People
,
Me
,
Look
Fame itself... doesn't really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.
David Bowie
Good
,
Restaurant
,
You
,
Fame
,
Anything
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.
David Bowie
Music
,
Me
,
Demons
,
You
,
Understand
,
Hand
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
People
,
Me
,
Situation
,
Sometimes
,
Will
For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.
David Bowie
People
,
Me
,
World
,
Reality
,
Different
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.
David Bowie
Work
,
Mistakes
,
Selfish
,
Stronger
,
Try
Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.
David Bowie
You
,
Place
,
Sometimes
,
Stumble
,
Few
,
Put
You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.
David Bowie
World
,
Think
,
You
,
Rock Star
,
Rock
,
Star
I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.
David Bowie
Music
,
Myself
,
Me
,
Feel
,
Things
,
Years
I've started doing book reviews for Barnes & Noble! They saw that I did a lot of book reviews on the site, and they figured that it might not be a bad thing if they got me to do some for them as well. I gave them five categories I'd be interested in reviewing, from art to fiction to music.
David Bowie
Music
,
Art
,
Me
,
Book
,
Doing
,
Bad
I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.
David Bowie
Need
,
More
,
Always
,
Human
,
Something
I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.
David Bowie
Art
,
Think
,
Boundaries
,
See
,
Between
I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.
David Bowie
Thinking
,
Negative
,
Never
,
Well
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