When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last... by David Bowie

When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.

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Strung out on lasers and slash back blazers. by David Bowie

Strung out on lasers and slash back blazers.

blazers lasers

When I was 9 years old, I wanted to be the baritone sax player in... by David Bowie

When I was 9 years old, I wanted to be the baritone sax player in the Little Richard band.

band player years

Sweet head, give you sweet head. by David Bowie

Sweet head, give you sweet head.

expression sweet giving

Some make you sing and some make you scream. One makes you wish that you'd never been seen. But there's a shop on the corner that's selling papier mache, making bullet-proof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay. If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.

clay wish boys

Someday, I'm gonna write a poem in a letter; Someday, I'm gonna g... by David Bowie

Someday, I'm gonna write a poem in a letter; Someday, I'm gonna get that faculty together.

together letters writing

If you want it, boys, get it here, thing. by David Bowie

If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.

cassius-clay want boys

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!

guitar real mean

No more free steps to heaven. by David Bowie

No more free steps to heaven.

steps heaven

There's a taste in my mouth and it's no taste at all. by David Bowie

There's a taste in my mouth and it's no taste at all.

taste mouths

And you, You can be mean And I, I'll drink all the time 'Cause we're lovers, And that is a fact Yes we're lovers, And that is that

causes mean facts

I think music should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself. It should be the clown, the Pierrot medium.

clown made thinking

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.

together-again commitment years

There's a good television programme called 'Disco 2.' It's quite good but again it's average, average. It's all on a down play. You know we've got this thing in England to be hip is to speak very down - like John Peel. And that just about sums up England. They don't realize when they talk like that, then that is what they represent - absolutely.

play average television

I always write well in New York. by David Bowie

I always write well in New York.

wells new-york writing

What I like doing is writing and recording and much more on the, I guess, the - on that creative level. It's fun interpreting songs and all that, but I wouldn't like it as a living.

writing song fun

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.

blokes levels thinking

Always drawn to the theatric, Bowie also performed in stage productions of "The Elephant Man" and just recently collaborated on "Lazarus," an off-Broadway musical that's a sequel to his 1976 role in the film "The Man Who Fell To Earth."

elephants musical men

[David] Bowie's last album "Blackstar" featured him backed by a j... by David Bowie

[David] Bowie's last album "Blackstar" featured him backed by a jazz quartet.

jazz albums lasts

[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz.

bowie selling jazz

[David] Bowie had a genius for continual change himself, reinventing his sound and his image throughout the decades. Each album seemed to find Bowie in a different persona, with a new sound to match his new look.

albums different sound