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David Bowie

(1947–2016) Songwriter United Kingdom

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David Bowie was a songwriter from the United Kingdom, best known for Hospitality Marketing.

Quick Facts About David Bowie

Born: January 8, 1947
Died: January 10, 2016
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Songwriter
Notable works: Hospitality Marketing
Known for: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Labyrinth, Life on Mars?, All the Young Dudes, Berlin Trilogy
Spouse: Angela Bowie

About David Bowie

David Robert Jones, known as David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter and actor. He was famous for constantly reinventing his look and music, earning the nickname “chameleon of rock.” He is regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, and his music, stagecraft and fashion left a lasting mark on popular culture.

Awards & Honors

Grammy Hall of Fame Great Britons Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award Saturn Award for Best Actor Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time Commander of the Order of the British Empire

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Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Webby Lifetime Achievement Award honorary doctor of the Berklee College of Music Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame

Quotes by David Bowie · Page 2

Trust nothing but your own experience.

Experience

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She's a total bam bam.

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“I'm an instant star, just add water.”

Fame

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Nothing prepared me for your smile

Friendship

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“Turn and face the strange changes.”

Change

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I was never particularly fond of my voice.

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I'm not very articulate.

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I'll place my love beneath the stars.

Astronomy

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I'd rather stay here with all the madmen than perish with the sadmen roaming free.

Insanity

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You've got your mother in a whirl, she's not sure if your a boy or a girl.

Boys

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“Don't let me hear you say life takes you nowhere, angel. - Golden Years ”

Golden years

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Bully for you, chilly for me, got to get a raincheck on pain.

Bully

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I'm not a natural performer. I don't like performing very much.

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See the mice in their million hordes From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads.

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I think Mustique is Duchampian - it will always provide an endless source of delight.

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I'm responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

Education

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I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.

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“When I looked in her eyes they were blue but nobody home. - Scarey Monsters (and Super Creeps) ”

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I don't have a problem with ageing - in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously…

Ageing

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The Internet carries the flag of being subversive and possibly rebellious and chaotic, nihilistic.

Being

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I think music should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself. It should be the clown, the Pierrot…

Clown

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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.

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Sexuality and where it is going is an extraordinary question, for I don't see it going anywhere. It is with me, and…

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I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.

Country

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I had very deep concerns about my financial status because I found that up until "Let's Dance" I was virtually broke again.…

Affair

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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…

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I liked rock music, I kind of moved into that sphere, somehow thinking that somewhere along the line I'd be able to…

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I think I quite desperately wanted to have that kind of special companionship [like marriage ] . . . a special relationship,…

Companionship

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I surrounded myself with people who indulged my ego. They treated me as though I was Ziggy Stardust or one of my…

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It took me a long time to reach the bottom and it went through various stages. I went from drugs into an…

Addiction

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There are times when I prefer a cerebral moment with an artist, and I'll just enjoy the wit of a Picabia or…

Art

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Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd was the first person in rock I had seen with makeup on. He wore black nail polish…

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The Internet is merely a new means of communication, that's all it is. It serves the purpose of getting information, which it…

Book

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“We passed upon the stair, We spoke of was and when. Although I wasn't there, He said I was his friend, Which…

Face to face

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I've always been very chauvinistic, even in my boy-obsessed days. But I was always a gentleman. I alwaysd treated my boys like…

Boys

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1961 was when I was really into clothes. I left school at 15 and started copying a bloke who used to go…

Boys

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Capitalism can be alright, I mean Karl Marx didn't live to see what Roosevelt did with that Depression. He pulled everybody out…

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My work is really the accumulation of these different moods that I've had throughout my life and where they've taken me. I…

Design

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By the mid-'80s, it was really apparent to me that I really needed to stop losing myself in my work and in…

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If I hadn't had my children, I would have been discouraged a lot quicker. It would have been much more easy for…

Children

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