David Bowie
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David Bowie
David Robert Jones, better known by his stage name David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter and actor. He was a figure in popular music for over five decades, regarded by critics and musicians as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, his music and stagecraft significantly influencing popular music. During his lifetime, his record sales, estimated at 140 million worldwide, made him one of the world's best-selling music...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth8 January 1947
CityLondon, England
When the musical keyboard was created in the 1970's, you had electronic geeks that had no background in music created these devises and gave them to musicians that had no background in electronics. The result was some of the wierd sounds that came out in the '70s.
The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.
I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents.
I'll ruin everything you are, I'll give you television.
Elvis is English, and climbs the hills. Can't tell the bullshit from the lies.
I'll stick with you baby for a thousand years.
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.
Hey man, I gotta straighten my face. This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place.
No more free steps to heaven.
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.
If it works, it's out of date.
Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.
Sits like a man, but smiles like a reptile.