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David Bowie
Age: 69 †
Born: 1947
Born: January 8
Died: 2016
Died: January 10
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Things have to hit for the moment. That's one of the reasons I'm into video the image has to hit immediately. I adore video and the whole cutting up of it.
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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.
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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.
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The character thing really is sort of, for me, personally, rather ancient history.
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I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents.
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All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author. There is no authoritative voice. There are only multiple readings.
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I ask for so little.Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave
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Funk, I don't think I have anything to do with funk. I've never considered myself funky.
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It is entirely possible to create something totally artificial within the realms of rock and roll.
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I'll ruin everything you are, I'll give you television.
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I'm not a natural performer. I don't like performing very much.
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The only art I'll ever study is stuff I can steal from.
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Lou Reed is the most important definitive writer in modern rock. Not because of the stuff that he does, but the direction that he will take it.
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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, but a mother image.
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I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I'm proud of what I've done. In fact it's been a good ride.
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Trying to tart the rock business up a bit is getting nearer to what the kids themselves are like, because what I find, if you want to talk in the terms of rock, a lot depends on sensationalism and the kids are a lot more sensational than the stars themselves.
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I guess a certain contingent of the musicians in London at the beginning of the '70s were fed up with denim and the hippies. And I think we kind of wanted to go somewhere else.
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Always drawn to the theatric, Bowie also performed in stage productions of The Elephant Man and just recently collaborated on Lazarus, an off-Broadway musical that's a sequel to his 1976 role in the film The Man Who Fell To Earth.
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I haven't changed my views much since I was about 12, really, I've just got a 12-year-old mentality.When I was in school I had a brother who was into Kerouac and he gave me On The Road to read when I was 12 years old. That's still been a big influence.
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If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.
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