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" Dance music is no longer a simple Donna Summer beat. It's become a whole language that I find fascinating and exciting. Eventually, it will lose the dance tag and join the fore of rock. "

David Bowie

Simple

Rock

Music

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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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Rate

Best

" 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

Feel

" I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely. "

" When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic. "

" I think in the '70s that there was a general feeling of chaos, a feeling that the idea of the '60s as 'ideal' was a misnomer. Nothing seemed ideal anymore. Everything seemed in-between. "

" 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. "

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David Bowie

Think

Thought

" I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it's so essential that when I'm involved in the actual process, my so-called 'real life' becomes almost incidental, which becomes worrying. "

" I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I'm proud of what I've done. In fact it's been a good ride. "

" I knew that I was 'interesting' at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage. "

" What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do. "

" I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it's no longer his... I just see what people make of it. "

" I wanted to be Gerry Mulligan, only, see, I didn't have any kind of technique. So I thought, well, baritone sax is kind of easier; I can manage that - except I couldn't afford a baritone, so I bought an alto, which was the same fingering. "

" From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience. "

" It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be. "

" I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. "

David Bowie

Need

Something

" 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. "

David Bowie

Away

Run

" The truest form of any form of revolutionary Left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E.E. Cummings, & Ginsberg's period. Excuse me, but that's where it was at. "

David Bowie

Call

Whatever

" Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use. "

" I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance. "

David Bowie

Theatre

Music

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

" 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

I Am

Left

" I do value the respect I get from my contemporaries, but to have Oasis cover my song, to have Puff Daddy cover a song, to have Goldie come along to my gigs - that's where my ego is at. To have my fellow musicians like what I do, that's very cool. "

David Bowie

Cool

Value

" 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. "

" Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place. "