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It Was Like Treading Water All Through The '60s, And When 1970 Kicked In, I Thought "we're Here. Right." God, This Is Exciting. I'm Going To Go For It Now. I Really Felt It Was My Time. Then Marc Bolan Did It First. That Really Pissed Me Off.

-David Bowie

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David Bowie

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It Was Like Treading Water All Through The '60s, And When 1970 Kicked In, I Thought "we're Here. Right." God, This Is Exciting. I'm Going To Go For It Now. I Really Felt It Was My Time. Then Marc Bolan Did It First. That Really Pissed Me Off.

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It's Almost A Social Grace To Get Into The Art World, And I'm Very Wary Of It. Art Was Good In Berlin In The Late '70s - There Was A Lot More Guts To Art When The Neo-expressionists Were Starting Up; It Was Real Slapdash; It Has Real Heart To It - But It Seems So Cold And Heartless In America. It's A Buyer's Market.

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I Can Ask For Cigarettes In Every Language

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I Was Always Accused Of Being Cold And Unfeeling. It Was Because I Was Intimidated About Touching People.

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I'm Not Actually A Very Keen Performer. I Like Putting Shows Together. I Like Putting Events Together.

I Never Really Got The Book Together For The Thing, So I Had All The Songs And The Characters. But By The Time We'd Gotten It On The Road And I'd Been Doing It For 18 Months, Oh God, I Couldn't Wait To Move On To Something Else.

I'm Drawn Between The Light And Dark.

I Never Could Get Over The Fact That The Pixies Formed, Worked And Separated Without America Taking Them To Its Heart Or Even Recognizing Their Existence For The Most Part.

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Someday, I'm Gonna Write A Poem In A Letter; Someday, I'm Gonna Get That Faculty Together.

I Liked Rock Music, I Kind Of Moved Into That Sphere, Somehow Thinking That Somewhere Along The Line I'd Be Able To Put The Two Together. And I Suppose I Very Nearly Did With The Ziggy Character.

I Have Found Myself Deeply, Deeply Intrigued By The Ska-punk Scene. It's Such An Expressive Form Of Popular Music, It's So Real, It's Got So Much Life: It's The Most Vital Music In The World.

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I'm A Born Librarian With A Sex Drive.

I Couldn't Stand To Be Separated With My Wife For Months. It Became Quickly Apparent To Me That I Needed To Find A Balance Between My Absolute Work Obsession And A Private Life That We Could Share Without My Disappearing All The Time.

Is It Nice In Your Snowstorm- Freezing Your Brain? Do You Think That Your Face Looks The Same?

The Coming Together Of People I Find Obscene As A Principle. It Is Not Human. It Is Not A Natural Thing As Some People Would Have Us Believe.

I'll Place My Love Beneath The Stars.

There's A Starman Waiting In The Sky, He'd Like To Come And Meet Us, But He Thinks He'd Blow Our Minds.

I Hate Albums That Are Really Happy. When I Am Really Happy, I Don't Like To Hear Happy Albums, And When I Am Really Sad I Don't Wanna Hear Happy Albums... And I Tend To Gravitate Towards The Lonely And Isolated Anyway When I Write.

Heathenism Is A State Of Mind. You Can Take It That I'm Referring To One Who Does Not See His World. He Has No Mental Light. He Destroys Almost Unwittingly. He Cannot Feel Any Gods Presence In His Life. He Is The 21st Century Man.

Put On Your Red Shoes, And Dance The Blues.

In Your Fear, Seek Only Peace. In Your Fear, Seek Only Love.

People Don't Get A Chance To Think, "why Am I A Consumer?" Because The Decisions Come At Them So Fast And Furiously, They're Not [even] Given Time To Think, I Am A Consumer.

I Was Told That It Was Cool To Fall In Love, And That Period Was Nothing Like That To Me. I Gave Too Much Of My Time And Energy To Another Person And They Did The Same To Me And We Started Burning Out Against Each Other. And That Is What Is Termed Love.

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I'm Wary Of The Word Glam Because I Think That Became The All-inclusive Term With For Any Bloke With Lipstick On, Which Is Fine, You Know, And That's What It Is When It Comes Down To The Public Level.

Trying To Tart The Rock Business Up A Bit Is Getting Nearer To What The Kids Themselves Are Like, Because What I Find, If You Want To Talk In The Terms Of Rock, A Lot Depends On Sensationalism And The Kids Are A Lot More Sensational Than The Stars Themselves.

Illusion I Will Be, For I've Never Been A Sinner.

It's Not The Side-effects Of The Cocaine - I'm Thinking That It Must Be Love. It's Too Late To Be Grateful, It's Too Late To Be Hateful, It's Too Late To Be Late Again, The European Cannon Is Here.

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The Truest Form Of Any Form Of Revolutionary Left, Whatever You Want To Call It, Was Jack Kerouac, E.e. Cummings, And Allan Ginsberg's Period. Excuse Me But That Was Where It Was At. The Hippies, I'm Afraid, Don't Know What's Happening.

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I Am A Moderately Good Singer. I Am Not A Great Singer But I Can Interpret A Song, Which I Don't Think Is Quite The Same As Singing It.

I Had A Fantasy That I'd Drift Up To Scotland And Spend My Life As A Faux Bodhisattua.

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It's Odd But Even When I Was A Kid, I Would Write About 'old And Other Times' As Though I Had A Lot Of Years Behind Me. Now I Do, So There Is A Difference In The Weight Of Memory.

Everything We Look At And Choose Is Some Way Of Expressing How We Want To Be Perceived.

Touring With Iggy Pop Was Something To Do. It Was Good Fun. I Got Drunk A Lot.

Strung Out On Lasers And Slash Back Blazers.

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.

There's A Terror In Knowing What The World Is About

There Seem To Be A Lot Of Black Artists Making Very Good Videos That I'm Surprised Aren't Being Used On Mtv.

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Strangely, Some Songs You Really Don't Want To Write.

I'm Always Amazed That People Take What I Say Seriously. I Don't Even Take What I Am Seriously.

For Here, Am I Sitting In A Tin Can, Far Above The World. Planet Earth Is Blue, And There's Nothing I Can Do... Though I'm Past One Hundred Thousand Miles, I'm Feeling Very Still - And I Think My Spaceship Knows Which Way To Go. Tell My Wife I Love Her Very Much.

I Would Like To Believe That People Knew What They Were Fighting For And Why They Wanted A Revolution, And Exactly What It Was Within That They Didn't Like.

Syd Barrett Of Pink Floyd Was The First Person In Rock I Had Seen With Makeup On. He Wore Black Nail Polish And Lots Of Mascara And Black Eye Shadow, And He Was So Mysterious. It Was This Androgynous Thing I Found Absolutely Fascinating.

I'm Very Shy. That's Probably One Of The Reasons I Got So Heavily Into Drugs.

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.

Lou Reed Is The Most Important Definitive Writer In Modern Rock. Not Because Of The Stuff That He Does, But The Direction That He Will Take It.

You Can't Put Down Anybody. You Can Just Try And Understand. The Emphasis Shouldn't Be On Revolution, It Should Be On Communication. Because It's Just Going To Get More Uptight. The More The Revolution Goes On, And There Will Be A Civil War Sooner Or Later.

The Sun Machine Is Coming Down, And We're Gonna Have A Party.

The Internet Is Merely A New Means Of Communication, That's All It Is. It Serves The Purpose Of Getting Information, Which It Is Fantastic At. I Mean, I Live By The Internet In Terms Of Research And It's Incredible - There's Nothing That You Can't Find Out About. It's Not Stopped Me Going To Bookshops But I Must Say That I Don't Go Into As Many Because Any Book I Want.

I Think That We Have Created A New Kind Of Person In A Way. We Have Created A Child Who Will Be So Exposed To The Media That He Will Be Lost To His Parents By The Time He Is 12.

I'm Not At Ease With The Word "love."

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I Could Never, Ever Talk To My Father. I Really Loved Him, But We Couldn't Talk About Anything Together. There Was This Really British Thing That Being Even Remotely Emotional Was Absolutely Verboten.

I Think Music Should Be Tarted Up, Made Into A Prostitute, A Parody Of Itself. It Should Be The Clown, The Pierrot Medium.

I Think That My Fascination With Clothes Generally Was Motivated By Trying To Create The Characters For The Stage.

In Order To Look Special Wearing The Chancy Unique; It Must Be Worn With Your Persona, And If The Two Don't Blend, Then The Look Becomes Pear-shaped.

I Had Very Deep Concerns About My Financial Status Because I Found That Up Until "let's Dance" I Was Virtually Broke Again. I Had Been So Irresponsible In How I Dealt With My Financial Affairs. I Take Full Responsibility For That.

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