David Bowie Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming”
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“People are always throwing things at me that I've said and I say that I didn't mean anything.”
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“Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.”
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“I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.”
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“I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.”
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“You can't stand still on one point for your entire life.”
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“I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants.”
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“I'm not sure whether it is me changing my mind, or whether I lie a lot.”
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“Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out...”
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“I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.”
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“I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.”
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“I went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both classes, so I have a pretty fair idea of how people live and why they do it.”
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“Critics I don't understand. They get too intellectual. They're not very well-versed in street talk; it takes them longer to say it. So they have to do it in dictionaries and they take longer to say it.”
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“People look to me to see what the spirit of the Seventies is.”
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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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“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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“You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.”
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“I have to take total control myself. I can't let anybody else do anything, for I find that I can do things better for me. I don't want to get other people playing with what they think that I'm trying to do.”
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“I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.”
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“I haven't changed my views much since I was about 12, really, I've just got a 12-year-old mentality.When I was in school I had a brother who was into Kerouac and he gave me On The Road to read when I was 12 years old. That's still been a big influence.”
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“I once asked [John] Lennon what he thought of what I do. He said 'it's great, but its just rock and roll with lipstick on'.”
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“I don't expect the human race to progress in too many areas. However, having a child with an ear infection makes one hugely grateful for antibiotics.”
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“I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.”
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“Trust nothing but your own experience.”
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“I'm quite certain that the audience that I've got for my stuff don't listen to the lyrics.”
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“You write down a paragraph or two describing several different subjects creating a kind of story ingredients-list, I suppose, and then cut the sentences into four or five-word sections; mix em up and reconnect them. You can get some pretty interesting idea combinations like this. You can use them as is or, if you have a craven need to not lose control, bounce off these ideas and write whole new sections.”
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“There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I've taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write.”
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“The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.”
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