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David Bowie
Age: 69 †
Born: 1947
Born: January 8
Died: 2016
Died: January 10
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I guess, - a greater number of the 26 or so albums that I've made are known in Europe than they are in America.
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The moment you know you know you know.
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There's something about the style of living in the country that they feel, This is what represents me. So style is about the philosophy of how we create our civilization.
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I once asked [John] Lennon what he thought of what I do. He said 'it's great, but its just rock and roll with lipstick on'.
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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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I spent so much time in my bedroom. It really was my entire world. I had books up there, my music up there, my record player. Going from my world upstairs out onto the street, I had to pass through this no-man's-land of the living room, you know, and out the front hall.
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Oooh, fashion, we are the goon squad and were coming to town, beep beep.
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My mother was a housewife. Both from - well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of England. And my mother came from a very working class.
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It always felt like you were trying too hard to look like the audience or something. That whole thing about the artistic integrity, which, of course, I've never bought into - with any artist. It's just not a real thing.
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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 and lots of mascara and black eye shadow, and he was so mysterious. It was this androgynous thing I found absolutely fascinating.
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I think a lot of that album [Tonight ] is still very good . . . the songs, but I think I was indifferent to the arrangements.
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I could never, ever talk to my father. I really loved him, but we couldn't talk about anything together. There was this really British thing that being even remotely emotional was absolutely verboten.
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Illusion I will be, for I've never been a sinner.
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Mine is really - Ziggy Stardust, characters, Let's Dance. That's me in the American.
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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 be inventive. I think that was the characteristic of my work that I wanted people to see.
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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 understand about me.
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I'm not sure that an art career would have any benefit for me I'm not sure it's what I want. I don't think I want to be a designer-rock artist.
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She asked for my love and I gave her a dangerous mind.
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It is entirely possible to create something totally artificial within the realms of rock and roll.
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