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David Bowie
Age: 69 †
Born: 1947
Born: January 8
Died: 2016
Died: January 10
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For here Am I sitting in a tin can, Far above the world. Planet Earth is blue, And there's nothing I can do.
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A lot of people that I know are bugged with the idea that they have got to have an audience, or they have got to be liked. I think the more that you fall into that trap it makes your own life harder to come to terms with, because an audience appreciation is only going to be periodic at the best of times.
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Nothing prepared me for your smile
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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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Hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand and glue.
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It's only forever... Not long at all.
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Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.
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I'm a thinker not a talker.
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There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I've taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write.
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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 think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.
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I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.
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The moment you know you know you know.
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There's a taste in my mouth and it's no taste at all.
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[While] my life started taking on all the problems of addiction. So that took me off into an area where relationships were absolutely impossible to handle on any real level. . . . Even communicating with other people was impossible.
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Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.
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[David] Bowie's last album Blackstar featured him backed by a jazz quartet.
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[David] Bowie had a genius for continual change himself, reinventing his sound and his image throughout the decades. Each album seemed to find Bowie in a different persona, with a new sound to match his new look.
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There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists. There are good things and bad things about being an artist, and the good thing is, sometimes you get an inside line on what's really happening. You develop these strange antennae that clue you in to what's really going on.
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Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don't think I'm camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage.
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