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
I've started doing book reviews for Barnes & Noble! They saw that I did a lot of book reviews on the site, and they figured that it might not be a bad thing if they got me to do some for them as well. I gave them five categories I'd be interested in reviewing, from art to fiction to music.
Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.
I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.
I didn't say that wearing a glamorization of the rock artist was any truer from the other thing.
There seem to be a lot of black artists making very good videos that I'm surprised aren't being used on MTV.
And it's always the same kind of artist, I think, who has more enjoyment being slightly on the outside of things, who doesn't want to be sucked into the tyranny of the mainstream. Because once you get sucked into that, you're dead as an artist.
Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist
Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.
I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.
I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.
If I put faith in medication, if I can smile a crooked smile, if I can talk on television, if I can walk an empty mile.
Oooh, fashion, we are the goon squad and were coming to town, beep beep.
Illusion I will be, for I've never been a sinner.
I'll ruin everything you are, I'll give you television.