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David Bowie

Im just an individual who doesnt feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. Im working for me. – David Bowie

But Im pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people. – David Bowie

I suppose for me as an artist it wasnt always just about expressing my work I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go. – David Bowie

The humanists replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow youll either save yourself or youll be immortal. Of course, thats a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but theres no ethical progress whatsoever. – David Bowie

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that Im 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

Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So its like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. Youd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because thats really the only unique situation thats going to be left. – David Bowie

I dont 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

Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I dont think Im camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage. – David Bowie

Im 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 will play everybody. – David Bowie

Theres a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that Im affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesnt want to leave. He likes it very much. – David Bowie

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, Im going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, Im going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan. – David Bowie

To not be modest about it, youll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that Ive worked with have done their best work by far with me. – David Bowie

I believe that I often bring out the best in somebodys talents. – David Bowie

I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, hes up there with Bryan Ferry. – David Bowie

I realized the other day that Ive lived in New York longer than Ive lived anywhere else. Its amazing: I am a New Yorker. Its strange I never thought I would be. – David Bowie

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time. – David Bowie

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music. – David Bowie

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

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time. – David Bowie

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. – David Bowie