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David Bowie
English
Musician
About the author
Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.
David Bowie,
English
Musician
#Youth
I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.
David Bowie,
English
Musician
#Man
#Living
#Potential
When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.
David Bowie,
English
Musician
#First
I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.
David Bowie,
English
Musician
#Thinking
#Negative
I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.
David Bowie,
English
Musician
#Work
It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.
David Bowie,
English
Musician
#People
#Will
Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.
David Bowie,
English
Musician
#Work
On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.
David Bowie,
English
Musician
#Music
Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.
David Bowie,
English
Musician
Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.
David Bowie,
English
Musician
#Want
#Songs
The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
David Bowie,
English
Musician
#Time
#Truth
#Journey
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.
David Bowie,
English
Musician
#Want
#Words
Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn't see a space in which we could get anything together.
David Bowie,
English
Musician
#Time
#Now
#Work
#Years
#Space
When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.
David Bowie,
English
Musician
#World
#Fire
I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.
David Bowie,
English
Musician
#Water
To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.
David Bowie,
English
Musician
#Work
#Musicians
I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.
David Bowie,
English
Musician
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,
English
Musician
#Play
#Thought
#Dad
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.
David Bowie,
English
Musician
#Life
#Work
#Worth
Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.
David Bowie,
English
Musician
#Songs
But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.
David Bowie,
English
Musician
#People
#Work
#Thinking
#Pretty
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,
English
Musician
#Songs
I'm always amazed that peole take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.
David Bowie,
English
Musician
I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents.
David Bowie,
English
Musician
I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.
David Bowie,
English
Musician
#Promise
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.
David Bowie,
English
Musician
#Time
#Work
#Music
#Painting
I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.
David Bowie,
English
Musician
#Years
#Music
I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part.
David Bowie,
English
Musician
#Heart
#America
#Fact
#Existence
I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.
David Bowie,
English
Musician
#Being
#Artist
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.
David Bowie,
English
Musician
#People
#Mother
#Sex
#Symbol
I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.
David Bowie,
English
Musician
#Power
#Music
I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.
David Bowie,
English
Musician
#Life
#Musicians
Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.
David Bowie,
English
Musician
#Life
#World
#State
#Man
#Light
#Mind
#Gods