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As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn't really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn't have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself.

~David Bowie

Topics: Actually Adolescent Being Being Myself Decided Disguise Doing Else Go Going Humiliation Myself Nerve Nobody Nobody Else Painfully Really Shy Sing Songs Stage Them Through

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I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.

~David Bowie

Topics: Denial Image Korean Many Originally Overweight Times Woman

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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.

~David Bowie

Topics: About Art Does Focused Get How Humanity Keep Maker Our Questions Really You

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

~David Bowie

Topics: Closing Drag Last Lyric Out Overwhelming Resort Stuck Will

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There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.

~David Bowie

Topics: Being Come Composer Effort Exist Information Music Musical Notes Pieces Reclaim Searching Things Those Unspeakable Writing

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Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation... about where you fit in society.

~David Bowie

Topics: About Alienation Car Crashing Done Driving Fit Going Good Having Home Lot Night Out Saturday Saturday Night Society Songs Where You

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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.

~David Bowie

Topics: Again Because Bother Different Different Directions Directions Down Dozen Each Each Time Favorite Half Hunt Me Most Return Same Subjects Theme Time Time And Time Topic Writers

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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.

~David Bowie

Topics: Afford Any Bought Easier Except Kind Manage Only Same Sax See Technique Thought Wanted Well Which I Can

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My son's full real name is Duncan Zowie Haywood. As a toddler, he was called by his second name Zowie. But it was such an identifiable name during the Seventies that if I called him loudly in public places, everyone would turn to stare, so I started calling him Joey to take the pressure off.

~David Bowie

Topics: Calling Everyone Full He Him His Loudly Name Off Places Pressure Public Real Second Seventies Son Stare Started Take Toddler Turn Would

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An armchair Jungian would say the whole thing is about my own ongoing spiritual search. My interior life has always been one of trying to find a spiritual link, maybe because I'm from a family of separate religious philosophies: Protestant and Catholic.

~David Bowie

Topics: About Always Because Been Catholic Family Find Interior Life Link Maybe My Own Ongoing Own Philosophies Protestant Religious Say Search Separate Spiritual Thing Trying Whole Would

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Musician

Born: January 8th, 1947

Died: January 10th, 2016

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