David Bowie Quotes

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TV has eaten up everything else, and Warhol films are all that are left, which is fabulous. Pork could become the next I Love Lucy, the great American domestic comedy. It's about how people really live, not like Lucy, who never touched dishwater. It's about people living and hustling to survive.

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I have to take total control myself. I can't let anybody else do anything, for I find that I can do things better for me. I don't want to get other people playing with what they think that I'm trying to do.

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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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People look to me to see what the spirit of the Seventies is.

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The coming together of people I find obscene as a principle. It is not human. It is not a natural thing as some people would have us believe.

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I don't like talk and I don't like talkers. Like Ma Barker. That's what she always said, 'Ma Barker doesn't like talk and she doesn't like talkers.' She just sat there with her gun.

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I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.

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The younger people get into the lyrics in a different way; there's much more of a tactile understanding, which is the way I prefer it.

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Critics I don't understand. They get too intellectual. They're not very well-versed in street talk; it takes them longer to say it. So they have to do it in dictionaries and they take longer to say it.

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There's not much point in getting any heavier... there's too many things to read and look at.

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Love is every type of relationship that you think of... I'm sure it means relationship, every type of relationship that you can think of.

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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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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 usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.

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Sexuality and where it is going is an extraordinary question, for I don't see it going anywhere. It is with me, and that's it.

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I was told that it was cool to fall in love, and that period was nothing like that to me. I gave too much of my time and energy to another person and they did the same to me and we started burning out against each other. And that is what is termed love...

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I want people to hear musicians like Joe Cuba. He has done things to whole masses of Puerto Rican people. The music is fantastic and important.

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A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle. The rock stars have assimilated all kinds of philosophies, styles, histories, writings, and they throw out what they have gleaned from that.

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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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Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.

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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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I went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both classes, so I have a pretty fair idea of how people live and why they do it.

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People are always throwing things at me that I've said and I say that I didn't mean anything.

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The name Bowie just appealed to me when I was younger. I was into a kind of heavy philosophy thing when I was 16 years old, and I wanted a truism about cutting through the lies and all that.

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I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.

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The people who don't know so much about me regard me more sexually.

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There's a thing that just as you go to sleep, if you keep your elbows elevated that you will never go below the dream stage. And I've used that quite a lot and it keeps me dreaming much longer than if I just relaxed.

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You can't put down anybody. You can just try and understand. The emphasis shouldn't be on revolution, it should be on communication. Because it's just going to get more uptight. The more the revolution goes on, and there will be a civil war sooner or later.

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I would like to believe that people knew what they were fighting for and why they wanted a revolution, and exactly what it was within that they didn't like.

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I'm quite certain that the audience that I've got for my stuff don't listen to the lyrics.

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