Tag: David Bowie
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However, there’s no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.
David Bowie
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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.
David Bowie
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I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.
David Bowie
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That’s the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God – so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true… Hell, don’t pose me that one.
David Bowie
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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 the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance.
David Bowie
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I’m not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I’m living on.
David Bowie
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I could imagine at a certain age, when I have no vocal cords left, that I would find a young man who could sing my parts for me. But I don’t see why I would stop.
David Bowie
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I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.
David Bowie
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And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.
David Bowie
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Now I realize that from ’72 through to about ’76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn’t have been more rock star.
David Bowie