David Bowie
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
But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.
I think music should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself. It should be the clown, the Pierrot medium.
I was always accused of being cold and unfeeling. It was because I was intimidated about touching people.
Hitler was the first superstar.
When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all the artforms are the same in the end.
I really believe that Bob Dylan and others have speeded up the changes. Pacifism has found a voice at last.
See the mice in their million hordes From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads.
You can't go on stage and live - it's false all the way. I can't stand the premise of going out in jeans and a guitar and looking as real as you can in front of 18,000 people. I mean, it's not normal!
I'm still younger than Jagger... Most people are.
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.
I had a fantasy that i'd drift up to Scotland and spend my life as a faux bodhisattua.
Someday, I'm gonna write a poem in a letter; Someday, I'm gonna get that faculty together.
I'm afraid of Americans; I'm afraid of the world; I'm afraid I can't help it.
I'm English. I can't accept happiness that easily. There's got to be a trick in there somewhere.