English - Musician | January 8, 1947 - January 10, 2016
It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth.
David Bowie
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I'm responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.
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I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it's no longer his... I just see what people make of it.
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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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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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I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it's so essential that when I'm involved in the actual process, my so-called 'real life' becomes almost incidental, which becomes worrying.
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The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.
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But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.
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For me, often, there's such a cloud of melancholia about knowing I'm going to have to leave my daughter on her own. I don't know what age that is going to be, thank God. It just doubles me up in grief.
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Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.
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I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.
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You get to a certain age, and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines; you're not going to get played on radio, and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.
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