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David Bowie

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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


#feel #i #individual #just #me

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.


— David Bowie


#amazes #analyze #even #intelligent #intelligent people

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 #does #i #longer #me

Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.


— David Bowie


#important #pixies #sonic #sonic youth #were

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


— David Bowie


#england #english #media #nonexistent #radio

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


— David Bowie


#chords #few #place #put #reflective

Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.


— David Bowie


#some #songs #strangely #want #write

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.


— David Bowie


#always #any #been #chords #everything

To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.


— David Bowie


#best #best work #couple #done #exceptions

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


— David Bowie


#heard #i #just #little #little richard






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Bowie portrayed physicist Nikola Tesla in the Christopher Nolan film The Prestige (2006) which was about the bitter rivalry between two magicians in the late 19th century. This he refused to do and his interview went ahead. Featuring a starkly lit set the Isolar – 1976 Tour highlighted songs from the album including the dramatic and lengthy title track the ballads "Wild Is the Wind" and "Word on a Wing" and the funkier "TVC 15" and "Stay".

" The relatively short-lived Ziggy persona proved merely one facet of a career marked by continual reinvention musical innovation and striking visual presentation. Throughout his career he has sold an estimated 140 million albums. Bowie first caught the eye and ear of the public in July 1969 when his song "Space Oddity" reached the top five of the UK Singles Chart.

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