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
For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.
I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it's no longer his... I just see what people make of it.
There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.
I was always accused of being cold and unfeeling. It was because I was intimidated about touching people.
I'm still younger than Jagger... Most people are.
A lot of people provide me with quotes. They suggest all kinds of things to say and I do, really, because I'm not very hip at all.
I guess, people like myself and Roxy Music that had a different agenda about taking up music.
People are always throwing things at me that I've said and I say that I didn't mean anything.
They [people] mistake fashion for style.
I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me, because it's not their profession to do that.
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.
My particular thing is discovering what can be done with media and how it can be used. You can't draw people together like one big huge family, people don't want that. They want isolation or a tribal thing.
I have to take total control myself. I can't let anybody else do anything, for I find that I can do things better for me. I don't want to get other people playing with what they think that I'm trying to do.
Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence.