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David Bowie

"I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way."

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"I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way."

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Donna Grant

"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."

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Donna Grant

"The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal."

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Donna Grant

"I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude."

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Donna Grant

"I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor."

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Donna Grant

"Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back."

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Donna Grant

"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."

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Donna Grant

"Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy."

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Donna Grant

"For us chess players the language of artist is something natural."

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Donna Grant

"So I guess the complete lack of any new developments is what struck me. That and the fact that much of the good we had done for the artists' side of the industry with G.O.D. had been just as quickly undone by the big boys."

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Donna Grant

"I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them."

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David Bowie
"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."

People

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David Bowie
"I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me."

Work

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David Bowie
"Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write."

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David Bowie
"I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music."

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David Bowie
"On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts."

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David Bowie
"And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan."

Father

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David Bowie
"I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image."

Sex

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David Bowie
"I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on."

Living

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David Bowie
"Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn't see a space in which we could get anything together."

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David Bowie
"When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire."

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