David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
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!
Quotes to Explore
-
There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.
-
I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
-
The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
-
I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
-
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
-
I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
-
It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
-
So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
-
Singing is a prayer to me.
-
I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
-
You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
-
In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.
-
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
-
I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.
-
The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!
-
Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.
-
I'm just being normal. A normal woman. Well, I don't know what a normal woman is, but I'm a woman and I'm Yoko and I've never changed that.
-
David Bowie worked with Brian Eno and dressed up in extraordinary clothes, but he was also a brilliant songwriter who captured the thoughts of a generation. He was hugely successful, without compromise.
-
While they are growing up, the young need adults who can suggest principles and values to them. They feel in need of people who can teach by their example, more than by their words, to expend themselves for high ideals.
-
Hip-hop has been hijacked by a Luciferian conspiracy. People have used hip-hop in a lot of ways that cause a lot of mind problems. They use the word wrongfully. They use it to mean a part instead of a whole.
-
Never let a boy know you're crazy about him. He'll lose interest, and then you'll be a loser.
-
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!
