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Bowie talks about putting a box around himself when he became popular and how TV now dominates everything. He says the stage can feel fake and that people often judge him without really knowing him. He also enjoys experimenting with media to bring people together.

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I'm still younger than Jagger... Most people are.

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People look to me to see what the spirit of the Seventies is.

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But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

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They [people] mistake fashion for style.

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The people who don't know so much about me regard me more sexually.

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A lot of people provide me with quotes. They suggest all kinds of things to say and I do, really, because I'm…

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The coming together of people I find obscene as a principle. It is not human. It is not a natural thing as…

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I was always accused of being cold and unfeeling. It was because I was intimidated about touching people.

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I don't like people probing into my life, so I reveal as little as possible or lie about it as much as…

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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,…

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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 want people to hear musicians like Joe Cuba. He has done things to whole masses of Puerto Rican people. The music…

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I would like to believe that people knew what they were fighting for and why they wanted a revolution, and exactly what…

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You can't go on stage and live - it's false all the way. I can't stand the premise of going out in…

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[While] my life started taking on all the problems of addiction. So that took me off into an area where relationships were…

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A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own…

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TV has eaten up everything else, and Warhol films are all that are left, which is fabulous. Pork could become the next…

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Since early middle ages when people generally taking away the barbarity of their like, were pretty content. Although it was all an…

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The underground went really underground. Grand Funk, and all these people man are the moderate's choice of music. Underground is Yoko Ono,…

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I went mainstream in a major way with the song "Let's Dance." And what I found I had done was put a…

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I don't believe in proper cinema; it doesn't have the strength of television. People having to go out to the cinema is…

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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…

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The younger people get into the lyrics in a different way; there's much more of a tactile understanding, which is the way…

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Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

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I guess, people like myself and Roxy Music that had a different agenda about taking up music.

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People will keep the TV on even if a show is on that they hate - because, unfortunately, they've been programmed to…

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People got extremely comfortable with being able to turn on their television and see MTV say, "This guy's hot you should buy…

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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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I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me because…

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Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence.

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For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I…

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People who had been treated inhumanly, not given a chance to secure any foot on any ladder - and all the social…

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I'm regarded quite asexually by a lot of people. And the people that understand me the best are nearer to what I…

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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…

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Rather than really have, like a close relationship to anything that's coming out today, people are just, they've got it on as…

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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…

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When I was going through those very fast changes, I think it was terribly important to me that I was seen to…

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What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That's what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at…

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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 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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I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think.

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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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I went mainstream in a major way with the song "Let's Dance." And what I found I had done was put a box around…

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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…

TV has eaten up everything else, and Warhol films are all that are left, which is fabulous. Pork could become the next I Love…

“My brain hurt like a warehouse It had no room to spare I had to cram so many things to store everything in there…

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute…

... And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of…

I think the first song I ever wrote ... was called "Can't Help Thinking About Me." That's an illuminating little piece, isn't it?

I've come to the realizations that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing half the time.

I never really felt like a rock singer or a rock star or whatever.