English - Musician | January 8, 1947 - January 10, 2016
As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?
David Bowie
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That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true... Hell, don't pose me that one.
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Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.
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I change my mind a lot. I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.
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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.
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I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.
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As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn.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.
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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.
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I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.
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I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.
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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.
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Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.
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