Top 100 Quotes About David Bowie
#1. I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.
David Bowie
#2. Who'll love Aladdin Sane? Battle cries and champagne just in time for sunrise.
David Bowie
#3. Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression?
David Bowie
#4. Working with David Bowie was very interesting, but I couldn't surrender to it. I should have let him produce a record for me, but I'm very perverse in some ways. He's brilliant, but the entourage were rather daunting.
Marianne Faithfull
#5. When I was 9 years old, I wanted to be the baritone sax player in the Little Richard band.
David Bowie
#6. I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.
David Bowie
#7. It is entirely possible to create something totally artificial within the realms of rock and roll.
David Bowie
#8. I'm very curious about David Bowie's new record [2016]. I'm very, very ... I'm just incredibly curious, I want to see what's happening with that. I don't really know who else is putting out records, we've had our heads buried working on ours. I haven't really been paying much attention lately.
Patrick Stump
#10. When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all the artforms are the same in the end.
David Bowie
#11. I'm an instant atar. Just add Ester and stir.
David Bowie
#12. There's something about the style of living in the country that they feel, "This is what represents me." So style is about the philosophy of how we create our civilization.
David Bowie
#13. I believe in Beatles, I believe my little soul has grown.
David Bowie
#14. I'm not actually a very keen performer. I like putting shows together. I like putting events together. In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it's the recording or the performance side.
David Bowie
#15. I rate Morrissey (Steven Patrick Morrissey) as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.
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#16. We can't stop trying til we break up our minds, til the sun drips blood on the seedy young knight.
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#17. Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.
David Bowie
#18. I played an album called Space Oddity by David Bowie, which, in its simple patterned measure of time, was actually quite enjoyable.
Matt Haig
#19. These are all personal crises, I'm sure, that I manifest in a song format and project into physical situations. You make little stories up about how you feel. It's as simple as that.
David Bowie
#21. The title song of David Bowie's 'Young Americans' is one of his handful of classics, a bizarre mixture of social comment, run-on lyric style, English pop and American soul.
Jon Landau
#22. When the musical keyboard was created in the 1970's, you had electronic geeks that had no background in music created these devises and gave them to musicians that had no background in electronics. The result was some of the wierd sounds that came out in the '70s.
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#23. What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I'm a pop singer for Christ's sake. As a person, I'm fairly uncomplicated.
David Bowie
#24. But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.
David Bowie
#25. My mother was a housewife. Both from - well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of England. And my mother came from a very working class.
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#26. The skin of my character in 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' was some concoction, a spermatozoon of an alien nature that was obscene and weird-looking.
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#27. He took it all too far, but boy could he play guitar.
David Bowie
#28. As I always said: I fell in with David Jones. I did not fall in love with David Bowie.
Iman
#29. Mine is really - Ziggy Stardust, characters, "Let's Dance." That's me in the American.
David Bowie
#30. Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.
David Bowie
#31. If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.
Ice-T
#32. You should turn around at the end of the day and say I really like that piece of work, or that piece of work sucked. Not, was that popular or wasn't it popular?
David Bowie
#33. I probably also wanted to be black at that particular time [ 9 years old] as well.
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#34. The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young to U2.
Kelly Jones
#35. There are half a dozen subjects that I return to time and time again, and that doesn't bother me. Because most of my favorite writers do that, to hunt down the same topic or theme from different directions each time.
David Bowie
#37. I had a radio show at the local college and I got kicked off the air and banished forever for playing music from the Rocky Horror Picture Show, Alice Cooper, and David Bowie because (quote-unquote) "They were gay." So, things have changed quite a bit.
Anne Boleyn
#38. For here, I'm sitting in a tin can, far above the world. Planet earth is blue, and there is nothing I can do.
David Bowie
#39. David Bowie told me my music sounds like tomorrow
Lorde
#40. It's not the side-effects of the cocaine - I'm thinking that it must be love.
It's too late to be grateful,
It's too late to be hateful,
It's too late to be late again,
The European cannon is here.
David Bowie
#41. I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.
David Bowie
#43. Time may change me, but I can't trace time.
David Bowie
#44. Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.
David Bowie
#45. People look to me to see what the spirit of the Seventies is.
David Bowie
#46. However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.
David Bowie
#47. I guess, people like myself and Roxy Music that had a different agenda about taking up music.
David Bowie
#48. If I wasn't going through a thing where I was also being my characters offstage, uh, I'm much happier just wearing the most low-profile things that I can come up with just so I can get down the street ...
David Bowie
#49. I love David Bowie and Cher and Diana Ross. I wanted to follow in their footsteps. So I set out to do that in a rock-'n'-roll band in Atlanta, Georgia. That led me to nightclubs and to the sort of Andy Warhol experience of creating a personality.
RuPaul
#50. I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them ... The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.
David Bowie
#51. I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I play everybody.
David Bowie
#52. 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
#53. It's a god-awful small affair
To the girl with the mousy hair
But her mummy is yelling, "No!"
And her daddy has told her to go
But her friend is nowhere to be seen
Now she walks through her sunken dream
To the seat with the clearest view
And she's hooked to the silver screen
David Bowie
#54. I'm English. I can't accept happiness that easily. There's got to be a trick in there somewhere.
David Bowie
#55. I had enormous self-image problems and very low self-esteem, which I hid behind obsessive writing and performing. It's exactly what I do now, except I enjoy it now. I'm not driven like I was in my twenties. I was driven to get through life very quickly.
David Bowie
#57. It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth.
David Bowie
#58. I've come to the realizations that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing half the time.
David Bowie
#59. His name is David Bowie and he's nineteen. Would you like to meet him?
Tony Visconti
#60. In order to look special wearing the chancy unique; it must be worn with your persona, and if the two don't blend, then the look becomes pear-shaped.
David Bowie
#61. I really want to be all serious and nod my head at that, but I think you just attempted to drop knowledge by quoting a movie in which David Bowie wears tights.
Scarlett Cole
#62. And I think my spaceship knows which way to go.
David Bowie
#63. I change my mind a lot. I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.
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#64. Rock has always been THE DEVIL'S MUSIC ... I believe rock and roll is dangerous ... I feel we're only heralding SOMETHING EVEN DARKER THAN OURSELVES.
David Bowie
#67. Elvis is English, and climbs the hills. Can't tell the bullshit from the lies.
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#68. I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doing. And because nobody else was ever doing my songs, I felt - you know, I had to go out and do them.
David Bowie
#69. I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.
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#70. I need to do a concert to celebrate David Bowie's electronic music. And in so doing, I'm not taking a step back, I'm taking a step forward and presenting it in its entirety so people can understand this type of visionary.
Carlos Alomar
#71. I think Mustique is Duchampian - it will always provide an endless source of delight.
David Bowie
#72. I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.
David Bowie
#73. All the great mystical religions put a strong emphasis on the redeeming qualities of sex.
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#74. I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement - it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original.
David Bowie
#75. But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.
David Bowie
#76. David Bowie is such a big influence to me. Everything about him as a person is intriguing to me.
Leona Lewis
#77. I never really felt like a rock singer or a rock star or whatever.
David Bowie
#78. Rather than really have, like a close relationship to anything that's coming out today, people are just, they've got it on as background music. It's kind of the same way the cabdrivers use music; it's very disposable.
David Bowie
#79. Let the children use it, let the children lose it, let all the children boogie.
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#80. Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.
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#81. People will keep the TV on even if a show is on that they hate - because, unfortunately, they've been programmed to do that.
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#82. Funk, I don't think I have anything to do with funk. I've never considered myself funky.
David Bowie
#83. Hearing that [David] Bowie passed was like you don't really believe it. It's as if the sky shifted a little bit, to remind you it was there.
Babatunde Adebimpe
#85. Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence.
David Bowie
#86. [David] Bowie's last album "Blackstar" featured him backed by a jazz quartet.
David Bowie
#87. I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.
David Bowie
#88. The truth is, of course, that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
David Bowie
#89. My sexual nature is irrelevant. I'm an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself.
David Bowie
#90. The sun machine is coming down, and we're gonna have a party.
David Bowie
#91. David Bowie, for me, was the butchest guy in town. Jagger was like a truck driver.
Hedi Slimane
#92. 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.
David Bowie
#93. I don't expect the human race to progress in too many areas. However, having a child with an ear infection makes one hugely grateful for antibiotics.
David Bowie
#94. 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.
David Bowie
#95. I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12.
David Bowie
#96. David [Bowie] quietly tells me, 'You know, I've had so much sex and drugs that I can't believe I'm still alive,' and I loudly tell him, 'You know, I've had SO LITTLE sex and drugs that I can't believe I'm still alive.
Morrissey
#97. Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.
David Bowie
#98. Bully for you, chilly for me, got to get a raincheck on pain.
David Bowie
#99. The Americans at heart are a pure and noble people; things to them are in black and white. It's either 'rawk' or it's not. We Brits putter around in the grey area.
David Bowie
#100. I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him.
Joaquin Phoenix
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