David Bowie quote: "Being a hybrid maker off and on over the years, I'm very comfortable with the idea and have been the subject of quite a few pretty good mash-ups myself."

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youth...
DAVID BOWIE

You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things i...
DAVID BOWIE

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger...
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I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry...
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The Americans at heart are a pure and noble people; things to them are in black and white. It's ...
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Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be ...
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The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10...
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I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Kore...
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I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and is...
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I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.
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As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the...
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I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any ...
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I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.
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What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.
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I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.
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Age doesn't bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It's the lack of years left tha...
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Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving h...
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However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is...
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Fame itself... doesn't really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.
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When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.
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As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn't really have the nerve to sing my song...
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I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am serious...
DAVID BOWIE

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.
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I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it's so ...
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There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It...
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I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm livin...
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Glam really did plant seeds for a new identity. I think a lot of kids needed that - that sense of re...
DAVID BOWIE

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.
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I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.
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What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a ...
DAVID BOWIE

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging...
DAVID BOWIE

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.
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Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advan...
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I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.
DAVID BOWIE

When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.
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That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as...
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My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home - I thi...
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I've started doing book reviews for Barnes & Noble! They saw that I did a lot of book review...
DAVID BOWIE

I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden a...
DAVID BOWIE

I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex...
DAVID BOWIE

I change my mind a lot. I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.
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On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demon...
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The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same ti...
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An armchair Jungian would say the whole thing is about my own ongoing spiritual search. My interior ...
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GYBE are among my, erm, two favourite Montreal bands, Arcade Fire being the other.
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I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining ...
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I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completel...
DAVID BOWIE

I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But the...
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To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musici...
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I wanted to be Gerry Mulligan, only, see, I didn't have any kind of technique. So I thought, wel...
DAVID BOWIE

I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this wi...
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I feel confident imposing change on myself. It's a lot more fun progressing than looking back. T...
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I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or a...
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It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement aft...
DAVID BOWIE

I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement - it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting ed...
DAVID BOWIE

Dance music is no longer a simple Donna Summer beat. It's become a whole language that I find fa...
DAVID BOWIE

With a suit, always wear big British shoes, the ones with large welts. There's nothing worse tha...
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I would dream. I focused all my attention on going to America. The subculture, James Dean, the rock ...
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There are times when I prefer a cerebral moment with an artist, and I'll just enjoy the wit of a...
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For me, often, there's such a cloud of melancholia about knowing I'm going to have to leave ...
DAVID BOWIE

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people e...
DAVID BOWIE

There are half a dozen subjects that I return to time and time again, and that doesn't bother me...
DAVID BOWIE

What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That's what drives my need to write and what probably lea...
DAVID BOWIE

I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.
DAVID BOWIE

I guess it's flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizi...
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I would drive to gigs in my tiny little Fiat. I would shoot up and down the M1 to play at various pl...
DAVID BOWIE

Funk, I don't think I have anything to do with funk. I've never considered myself funky.
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These are all personal crises, I'm sure, that I manifest in a song format and project into physi...
DAVID BOWIE

When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few year...
DAVID BOWIE

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've writ...
DAVID BOWIE

I think in the '70s that there was a general feeling of chaos, a feeling that the idea of the &#...
DAVID BOWIE

Being shoved into the top-40 scene was an unusual experience. It was great I'd become accessible...
DAVID BOWIE

When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.
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I still derive immense pleasure from remembering how many hod-carrying brickies were encouraged to p...
DAVID BOWIE

I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as importan...
DAVID BOWIE

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone...
DAVID BOWIE

It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone thr...
DAVID BOWIE

All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we g...
DAVID BOWIE

But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's wor...
DAVID BOWIE

My son's full real name is Duncan Zowie Haywood. As a toddler, he was called by his second name ...
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Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his worl...
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Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.
DAVID BOWIE

Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.
DAVID BOWIE

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.
DAVID BOWIE

I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.
DAVID BOWIE

Art was, seriously, the only thing I'd ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable no...
DAVID BOWIE

All Montreal bands have around nine members, I believe.
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It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.
DAVID BOWIE

I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. I...
DAVID BOWIE

I do value the respect I get from my contemporaries, but to have Oasis cover my song, to have Puff D...
DAVID BOWIE

And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your ...
DAVID BOWIE

Is it Nice in your snowstorm- freezing your brain? Do you think that your face looks the same?
DAVID BOWIE

We can be Heroes, Just for one day
DAVID BOWIE

I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized to many people he is not a sex symb...
DAVID BOWIE

I Just Called To Say I Love You.
DAVID BOWIE

I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.
DAVID BOWIE

...And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds, they are immune to your c...
DAVID BOWIE

You can neither win nor lose if you don't run the race
DAVID BOWIE

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star
DAVID BOWIE

He's a friendly and caring guy whom I really respect for his knowledge of touring. Not to mention my...
DAVID BOWIE

I'm always amazed that peole take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I 'am' seriously.
DAVID BOWIE

Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.
DAVID BOWIE

I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I woul...
DAVID BOWIE

The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save you...
DAVID BOWIE

I've always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my f...
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I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking ...
DAVID BOWIE

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his wo...
DAVID BOWIE

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it's no longer hi...
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The skin of my character in 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' was some concoction, a spermatozoon ...
DAVID BOWIE

I'm responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.
DAVID BOWIE

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in som...
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I could imagine at a certain age, when I have no vocal cords left, that I would find a young man who...
DAVID BOWIE

I was born in London 1947, after the war. A real wartime baby. I went to school in Brixton, and then...
DAVID BOWIE

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particul...
DAVID BOWIE

There's a terror in knowing what the world is about
DAVID BOWIE

Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.
DAVID BOWIE

I'm an instant star, just add water.
DAVID BOWIE

Turn and face the strange changes.
DAVID BOWIE

There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things...
DAVID BOWIE

Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to re...
DAVID BOWIE

People are so fucking dumb. Nobody reads anymore, nobody goes out and looks and explores the society...
DAVID BOWIE

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I though...
DAVID BOWIE

The Internet carries the flag of being subversive and possibly rebellious and chaotic, nihilistic.
DAVID BOWIE

There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. ...
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Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.
DAVID BOWIE

Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldv...
DAVID BOWIE

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's becaus...
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From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and a...
DAVID BOWIE

Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fair...
DAVID BOWIE

Look up here, I'm in heaven!
I've got scars that can't be seen
I've got drama, can't be st...
DAVID BOWIE

I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings...
DAVID BOWIE

It's only forever, not long at all
DAVID BOWIE

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, m...
DAVID BOWIE

I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much mor...
DAVID BOWIE

Now I realize that from '72 through to about '76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn'...
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A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for ...
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I'm an early riser. I get up between five and six, have coffee, and read for a couple of hours b...
DAVID BOWIE

I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents.
DAVID BOWIE

I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.
DAVID BOWIE

I knew that I was 'interesting' at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing t...
DAVID BOWIE

I think Mustique is Duchampian - it will always provide an endless source of delight.
DAVID BOWIE

I'm wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It's ...
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I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and sin...
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The name Zahra was to have been lman's own name at birth, but a senior member of the family chan...
DAVID BOWIE

I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doin...
DAVID BOWIE

I cannot with any real integrity perform songs I've done for 25 years. I don't need the mone...
DAVID BOWIE

I've always tended to write songs prolifically.
DAVID BOWIE

My father worked for a children's home called Dr. Barnardo's Homes. They're a charity.
DAVID BOWIE

I have all the admiration in the world for somebody like Bono, who really puts himself on the line a...
DAVID BOWIE

I don't have a problem with ageing - in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and ob...
DAVID BOWIE

I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating character...
DAVID BOWIE

You get to a certain age, and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of cove...
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Frankly, if I could get away with not having to perform, I'd be very happy. It's not my favo...
DAVID BOWIE

The truest form of any form of revolutionary Left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E...
DAVID BOWIE

If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But...
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I'm not actually a very keen performer. I like putting shows together. I like putting events tog...
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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 ...
DAVID BOWIE

I was never particularly fond of my voice.
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I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and rec...
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I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Zigg...
DAVID BOWIE

I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I'm a...
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I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time...
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But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.
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I couldn't have written things like 'Low' and 'Heroes,' those particular albums,...
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It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth.
DAVID BOWIE

I'm not very articulate.
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When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn't live past 30.
DAVID BOWIE

I'll tell you who I absolutely adore: Ian McEwan.
DAVID BOWIE

I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to sa...
DAVID BOWIE

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup...
DAVID BOWIE

I'm very good at what I do, and I don't turn my hand to something unless I'm very good a...
DAVID BOWIE

I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn&#...
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I'm a born librarian with a sex drive
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Don't let me hear you say life takes you nowhere, angel.

- Golden Years
DAVID BOWIE

What is the quality you most like in a man?
The ability to return books.
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Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out...
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Make the best of every moment. We’re not evolving. We’re not going anywhere.
DAVID BOWIE

There's a taste in my mouth and it's no taste at all.

- Queen Bitch
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When I looked in her eyes they were blue but nobody home.

- Scarey Monsters (and Super...
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Being a hybrid maker off and on over the years, I'm very comfortable with the idea and have been the subject of quite a few pretty good mash-ups myself.

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Being a hybrid maker off and on over the years, I'm very comfortable with the idea and have been the subject of quite a few pretty good mash-ups myself.

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