David Bowie
"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."
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"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."
"تجري في عروق عائلتي نزعة انفصامية على أي حال، لذا أجرؤ على القول إنني متأثر بها. لقد أمضى غالبية أفراد أسرتي بعض الوقت في مصحة نفسية، أما أخي فلا يرغب في مغادرتها. إنه يحبها كثيرًا."
David Bowie
"I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic."
"أقف في ذهول أمام عظمة الكون، لكنني لا أرى بالضرورة ذكاءً أو قوةً فاعلةً تقف خلفه. ومع ذلك، يستهويني الجانب المرئي في الطقوس الدينية، حتى وإن كانت خاوية تمامًا ومجردة من أي مضمون. فالبخور، سواء كان بوذيًا أم كاثوليكيًا، يمتلك قوة آسرة ومُحفّزة للحواس."
David Bowie
"I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance."
"تأسرني عظمة الكون، غير أنني لا أؤمن بوجود عقل مدبر أو قوة فاعلة وراءه. بيد أنني أكنّ شغفاً بالجانب البصري في الشعائر الدينية، وإن بدت لي خالية تماماً من أي جوهر أو مضمون."
David Bowie
"I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth."
"لقد تجاوزتُ بكثيرٍ السنَّ الذي يُقبَل فيه أمثالي. تبلغُ مرحلةً معينةً فتُمنَع من الدخول. لن تحظى بالتغطية التي ترغبها في مجلات الموسيقى، ولن تُبثَّ أعمالك على الراديو أو التلفزيون. عليَّ أن أعيشَ على ما يتناقله الناس."
David Bowie
"I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does."
"اضطررت أن أستسلم، منذ سنوات عديدة، لحقيقة أنني لا أجيد التعبير عن مشاعري تجاه الأمور. لكن موسيقاي تفعل ذلك نيابة عني، إنها حقاً تفعل."
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."
"من ناحية أخرى، ما أحبه أن تفعله بي موسيقاي هو أن توقظ الأشباح في داخلي. لا الشياطين، كما تفهم، بل الأشباح."
David Bowie
"Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them."
"قد تأخذ الشهرة رجالاً مميزين وتفرض عليهم الرداءة."
David Bowie
"I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir."
"أنا نجمٌ فوريّ. ما عليك سوى إضافة الماء والتحريك."
David Bowie
"All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it."
"أعظم أخطائي تقع حين أحاول استباق رأي الجمهور أو إرضاءه. فعملي يكون دائمًا أقوى حين أكون شديد الأنانية تجاهه."
David Bowie
"What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do."
"أحب أن أترك بصمة مؤثرة من خلال عملي."
David Bowie
"I do value the respect I get from my contemporaries, but to have Oasis cover my song, to have Puff Daddy cover a song, to have Goldie come along to my gigs - that's where my ego is at. To have my fellow musicians like what I do, that's very cool."
"أجل، أقدّر الاحترام الذي أحظى به من معاصريّ، لكن أن تُغني فرقة "أويسس" أغنيتي، وأن يُعيد "باف دادي" غناءها، وأن يحضر "غولدي" حفلاتي — هذا هو مربط الفرس بالنسبة لغروري. أن يستحسن زملائي الموسيقيون ما أفعله، هذا أمر رائع حقًا."
David Bowie
"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"
David Bowie
"If I could control tomorrow's haze,The darkened shore wouldn't bother me,If I can't control the web we weave,My life will be lost in the fallen leaves..."
David Bowie
"Sometimes I don't feel as if I'm a person at all. I'm just a collection of other people's ideas."
David Bowie
"Cause I'd rather stay here With all the madmen Than perish with the sadmen roaming free And I'd rather play here With all the madmen For I'm quite content they're all as sane As me"
David Bowie
"David Thomas: What do you think is the worst crime that could possibly be committed? What is the crime that offends you most?David Bowie: Seeing a man humble himself in his capacity as a worker to somebody else, and having to have that accepted as a given situation."
David Bowie
"I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I thought, 'Fuck that. I want to be a superhuman."
David Bowie
"I can ask for cigarettes in every language"
David Bowie
"Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out..."
David Bowie
"Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one’s emotional plane."
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