Tag: David Bowie
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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.
David Bowie
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I was born in London 1947, after the war. A real wartime baby. I went to school in Brixton, and then I moved up to Yorkshire, which is in the north of England. I lived on the farms up there.
David Bowie
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I guess it’s flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing.
David Bowie
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But I’ve got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album’s worth of work as his legacy. That’s all that life allowed him.
David Bowie
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It is amazing how a new child can refocus one’s direction seconds after its birth.
David Bowie
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I wanted to be Gerry Mulligan, only, see, I didn’t have any kind of technique. So I thought, well, baritone sax is kind of easier; I can manage that – except I couldn’t afford a baritone, so I bought an alto, which was the same fingering.
David Bowie
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Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.
David Bowie
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I don’t profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.
David Bowie
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With a suit, always wear big British shoes, the ones with large welts. There’s nothing worse than dainty little Italian jobs at the end of the leg line.
David Bowie
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Being a hybrid maker off and on over the years, I’m very comfortable with the idea and have been the subject of quite a few pretty good mash-ups myself.
David Bowie