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" 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. "

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" Being shoved into the top-40 scene was an unusual experience. It was great I'd become accessible to a huge audience but not terribly fulfilling. "

David Bowie

Audience

Become

Experience

" When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire. "

" If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer. "

" 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

Feel

Music

" 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. "

" My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home - I think in those days we called them arguments - about who was right and who was wrong. "

" 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. "

" I cannot with any real integrity perform songs I've done for 25 years. I don't need the money. What I need is to feel that I am not letting myself down as an artist and that I still have something to contribute. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was never particularly fond of my voice. "

" 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

Think

Thought

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music. "

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

" You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is. "

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

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

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

" Funk, I don't think I have anything to do with funk. I've never considered myself funky. "

" 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. "

" Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming. "

" There are half a dozen subjects that I return to time and time again, and that doesn't bother me. Because most of my favorite writers do that, to hunt down the same topic or theme from different directions each time. "

" I'm not very articulate. "

David Bowie

Very

Articulate

" You get to a certain age, and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines; you're not going to get played on radio, and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth. "

" Now I realize that from '72 through to about '76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn't have been more rock star. "

" 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. "

" The skin of my character in 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' was some concoction, a spermatozoon of an alien nature that was obscene and weird-looking. "