David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

I have absolutely no interest in rock and roll. I'm just being David Bowie. Mick Jagger is rock and roll. I mean, I go out and my music is roughly the format of rock and roll, I use the chord changes of rock and roll, but I don't feel I'm a rock and roll artist. I'd be a terrible rock artist, absolutely ghastly.

David Bowie

• Interest
• Terrible
• Jagger

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• I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Never
  • Interest
  • Snow

• I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Me
  • Security
  • Terrible

• I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a company in England. They owned a children's TV show which they put me in as a singer, and I was on the show for three years, and I left the show when I was 18 and started looking for a record contract.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Children
  • Interest
  • Actress

• I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Up
  • Me
  • Interest

• Shame on me if I don't try to do more with what I have. It would be... a terrible thing to waste this opportunity to try to make a difference.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Opportunity
  • Me
  • Difference

• The one thing that's terrible about traveling for fun is writing about it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Terrible

• The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Terrible

• Any project that I find encouraging that isn't attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Interest
  • Project
  • Encouraging

• Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Rules
  • Terrible

• I have no interest in being famous. I just want to make famous photographs.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • Want
  • Famous
  • Interest

• I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Freedom

• Take away from the courts, if it could be taken away, the power to issue injunctions in labor disputes, and it would create a privileged class among the laborers and save the lawless among their number from a most needful remedy available to all men for the protection of their business interests against unlawful invasion.... The secondary boycott is an instrument of tyranny, and ought not to be made legitimate.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Men
  • Taken
  • Interest

• Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.

  

  William Osler
  • War
  • Humanity
  • Enemy

• I am under obligations to most of those advisers for the pains and interest they took in my case; but only to one for an effectual remedy.

  

  William Banting
  • Pain
  • Interest
  • Cases

• I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Interest
  • Gardening
  • Armchair

• You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Love
  • Interest
  • Curiosity

• if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Death
  • Interest
  • Public

• It's terrible to be young. It's terrible. Terrible

  

  William Faulkner
  • Young
  • Terrible

• There's a large percentage of mobile phones that now have a camera that's with you a lot of the time, and there's a lot of interest around those cameras as a data collection mechanism.

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
  • Interest
  • Camera
  • Around

• I never had any interest in sitcoms or motion pictures or anything like that.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Interest
  • Pictures
  • Sitcoms

• There is something evocative about the idea of destruction. This act of destruction is the expression of an idea... that what we call reality is not real at all. When I draw a head, for example, I immediately feel an urge to destroy it, to erase it, because the drawing only captures an outward appearance, and for me the vital issue is what lies behind the visual form of the head.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Real
  • Reality
  • Lies

• The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness, to American presidential candidates in the year 2000 - to everyone who believes that wealth should be redistributed. And that message is clear and concise: Go to Hell.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• Once you start working with a particular actor, that actor becomes very present in your mind as your mind as you're writing subsequent episodes.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Mind
  • Episodes
  • Subsequent

• I have absolutely no interest in rock and roll. I'm just being David Bowie. Mick Jagger is rock and roll. I mean, I go out and my music is roughly the format of rock and roll, I use the chord changes of rock and roll, but I don't feel I'm a rock and roll artist. I'd be a terrible rock artist, absolutely ghastly.

  

  David Bowie
  • Interest
  • Terrible
  • Jagger