I'm afraid of Americans.
David Bowie
Born: January 8, 1947 Died: January 10, 2016
David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 - 10 January 2016), known under his stage name David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, arranger, painter, and actor. Bowie was a figure in popular music for over four decades, and was known as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s.
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Alternative Names for David Bowie
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- David Robert Jones (English (en))
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You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.
Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person you always should have been.
I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I play everybody.
I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.
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No more free steps to heaven.
- <i>It's No Game</i>
Some make you sing and some make you scream,
One makes you wish that you'd never been seen.
But there's a shop on the corner that's selling papier-mache,
Making bullet-proof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay.
If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.
- <i>Sweet Thing</i>
If it works, it's out of date.
Blackstar, two days before his death. And interestingly, that record was a kind of self-interview — Bowie’s most fearless and open of them all, wherein he answers the ultimate hard question “What is it like to be dying?” — and reveals in poetic detail what had meaning to him in his life … while addressing his audience with a certain innate gratitude as he says goodbye.
David Thomas: What do you think is the worst crime that could possibly be committed? What is the crime that offends you most?
David Bowie: Seeing a man humble himself in his capacity as a worker to somebody else, and having to have that accepted as a given situation.
I should live my life on bended knee
If I can't control my destiny
You've gotta have a scheme
You've gotta have a plan
In the world of today, for tomorrow's man
- <i>No Control</i>
And I don't care what anybody says; I like doing it, and it's what I shall continue to do
"He Said. "David, you must remember that in all the functions we have in life, art is the one place where we can crash our plane and walk away from it". And that's so right. Creating something is the one area where you mustn't have caution or inhibition. If you make a startling, disastrous mess, it's fine, because you can reach out and reevaluate and plunge off into another direction.
Bowie on Eno and art Interview Magazine September 1995"
I needed to sing because nobody else was singing my songs.