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David Bowie
English
Musician
Born:
Jan 8
,
1947
Died:
Jan 10
,
2016
Me
Music
People
Think
Work
You
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I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.
David Bowie
Promise
Boring
Know
Going
Where
Here
The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
David Bowie
Truth
Time
Journey
Truth Is
Course
Arriving
Departing
Same
Same Time
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
Me
People
Sometimes
Will
Situation
Analyze
Recognizing
Structure
Only
Piece
Make
Judgement
Amazes
Traditional
Intelligent
Intelligent People
After
Standard
Even
All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.
David Bowie
Work
Selfish
Try
Stronger
Mistakes
Big
Second-Guess
Please
About
Audience
Always
Very
Get
I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.
David Bowie
Man
Superman
Living
Potential
Prophet
Mortal
Stone
Just
Aged
As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn't really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn't have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself.
David Bowie
Myself
Being Myself
Disguise
Humiliation
Stage
Else
Nerve
Adolescent
Through
Songs
Nobody
Nobody Else
Sing
Withdrawn
Doing
Go
Going
Being
Decided
Them
Really
Painfully
Actually
Shy
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
Work
Me
Somebody
Way
Individual
Feel
Particular
Particular Way
Qualify
Any
Just
Working
Who
Need
Age doesn't bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It's the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.
David Bowie
Me
Age
Heroes
Older
Guys
Bother
Weighs
Am
Were
Years
Left
Than
Lack
Heavier
Far
Many
Older Guys
What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That's what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.
David Bowie
Me
People
Perspective
Tend
Write
Take
Drives
Leads
Look
Most
Malevolent
Curiosity
Different
Little
Different Perspective
Things
Need
As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?
David Bowie
Time
You
Three
Long
Down
Older
About
Come
Got
How
Left
Questions
Get
Two
I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.
David Bowie
Great
Fear
Worldview
Abandonment
Isolation
Those
Kind
Guys
Deal
Terror
Art was, seriously, the only thing I'd ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.
David Bowie
Art
Me
Change
Seriously
Own
Way
Only
Mornings
Feel
Always
Been
Stable
The Only Thing
Wanted
Use
Nourishment
Ever
Thing
Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.
David Bowie
Music
God
Writing
Musical
Reclaim
Those
Composer
Similar
Unspeakable
Like
Pieces
Exist
Very
Effort
Being
Information
Notes
Searching
Things
All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.
David Bowie
Art
You
Humanity
Our
Focused
About
Maker
Does
How
Questions
Get
Really
Keep
I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.
David Bowie
Art
Think
See
Between
Boundaries
Art Forms
Any
Forms
I feel confident imposing change on myself. It's a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That's why I need to throw curve balls.
David Bowie
Myself
Change
Looking
Looking Back
Progressing
Back
More
Throw
Feel
Imposing
Balls
Lot
Than
Confident
Curve
Fun
Why
Need
Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.
David Bowie
Struggle
Learning
Age
Enthusiasm
Older
Settling
Everything
Crisis
About
Had
True
Read
Comfort
How
Go
Exist
Hitting
While
Youthful
Letting
Letting Go
Things
Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.
David Bowie
Spiritual
Me
Relationship
Anxiety
Worldview
Consistent
Tend
Songs
Like
Make
Sound
Been
Themes
Figures
Searching
I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.
David Bowie
Time
Loyalty
Me
Integrity
People
Matter
Believe
Changing
Perceive
More
Contemporaries
Stylistic
Real
Continuity
Subject
Subject Matter
Than
Artifice
Any
Artist
Why
I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.
David Bowie
People
Seriously
Say
Take
Always
Am
Amazed
Even
I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.
David Bowie
Intelligence
Passion
Believe
Universe
Bereft
Though
Visual
Religious
Rituals
Buddhist
Powerful
Catholic
Empty
Provocative
May
Behind
Substance
Whether
Agent
Incense
Even
Awe
Necessarily
Glam really did plant seeds for a new identity. I think a lot of kids needed that - that sense of reinvention. Kids learned that however crazy you may think it is, there is a place for what you want to do and who you want to be.
David Bowie
Crazy
You
Plant
Sense
Think
Kids
Seeds
Glam
New
Identity
Learned
However
Lot
Did
May
Want
Place
Really
Who
Reinvention
Needed
I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.
David Bowie
Woman
Denial
Korean
Overweight
Times
Many
Originally
Image
I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me.
David Bowie
Me
You
Thought
Somebody
Become
Older
Think
Would
Would-Be
Guy
Never
Part
Feel
Makeup
Said
Always
Been
Person
Get
Happening
Should
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
Music
Me
You
Other
Ghosts
Inside
Like
Understand
Demons
Hand
Awaken
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
Life
Work
Myself
Worth
Think
Guy
Only
Johnson
Had
Allowed
Robert
Robert Johnson
Him
Got
His
Legacy
Luckiest
Album
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