David Bowie Quotes

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• I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As…
• I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my…
• I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.
• Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.
• I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.
• Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.
• Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.
• But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.
• I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.
• Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of…
• I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.
• Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.
• Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.
• Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.
• When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.
• When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.
• I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite…
• 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…
• I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.
• I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

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