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Hitler was the first superstar.
David Bowie
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David Bowie
Age: 69 †
Born: 1947
Born: January 8
Died: 2016
Died: January 10
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What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I'm a pop singer for Christ's sake. As a person, I'm fairly uncomplicated.
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I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.
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At no point did I ever doubt I would be as near as anybody could be to England's Elvis Presley. Even from eight or nine years old, I thought, Well, I'll be the greatest rock star in England. I just made up my mind.
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I'm very shy. That's probably one of the reasons I got so heavily into drugs.
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People look to me to see what the spirit of the Seventies is.
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There's a taste in my mouth and it's no taste at all.
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With Let's Dance, there was actually a chance that I was actually going to be able to keep the money I had made.
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We slit the Catholic throat, stoned the poor on such slogans as wish you could hear and love is all we need.
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I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.
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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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Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.
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There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.
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I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings.
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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.
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I don't believe in proper cinema it doesn't have the strength of television. People having to go out to the cinema is really archaic. I'd much rather sit at home.
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The public, obviously, they takes things in a very simplest fashion and so they should. That's why we have such wonderful television.
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I'm not at ease with the word love.
David Bowie
If you come from art, you'll always be art.
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I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.
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Someday, I'm gonna write a poem in a letter Someday, I'm gonna get that faculty together.
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