David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

I have found myself deeply, deeply intrigued by the ska-punk scene. It's such an expressive form of popular music, it's so real, it's got so much life: it's the most vital music in the world.

David Bowie

• World
• Real
• Scene

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is He who hath promised and who never lies.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Lies

• I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Always
  • Admit
  • Coconut

• I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • American
  • Change
  • Agent

• Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Movie
  • Books
  • Television

• Well it's not easy being Tiger Woods on the course. It's not easy being Tiger Woods off the course. In his defense, it's not easy being Tiger Woods.

  

  Hank Haney
  • Easy
  • Tiger
  • Woods

• I'm a home girl. I like to stay home.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Home
  • Girl
  • Like

• 'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Think

• It's great that with the Internet, there has come this sense of creative independence.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Great
  • Creative
  • Internet

• I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
  • Character
  • Funny

• Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.

  

  James Brown
  • Family
  • Spiritual
  • Struggle

• I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Society
  • Lies

• I've seen Chance and the Social Experiment build their own careers in the way that's most authentic to them.

  

  Jamila Woods

• The creation continues incessantly through the media of man.

  

  Antoni Gaudi
  • Man
  • Media
  • Creation

• I've got the hottest brand in the world.

  

  Donald Trump
  • World

• I went to Cal Arts and AFI, and I worked on 'Bonfire Of The Vanities.' I got this grant from the Academy to be Brian De Palma's apprentice director. And it was such a harrowing, disillusioning, awful experience.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Experience

• I thought I sounded a little like Eartha Kitt for a long time, and I didn't like it.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Time
  • Long

• I think the Democratic Party has the chronic problem of appearing to be weak, of not standing and fighting for what it believes in, not fighting for its own.

  

  James Carville
  • Party
  • Fighting

• Like Russell, I enjoy the fact that when I'm playing solo, if I want to do something completely spontaneous, I don't have to worry about how I'm going to cue the other musicians, or if it's something that's rehearsed.

  

  Benny Green
  • Worry

• When you're a young kid and you're gay, you're out there on your own. And you're trying to figure this thing out. And your parents typically aren't gay.

  

  James McGreevey
  • Trying
  • Parents
  • Gay

• We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • American
  • Play
  • Band

• I was a little confused as a kid because I grew up with my mom, and my mom is black. So, I was cultured in a very 'black' way. But when I go to school, I'm getting called 'white.' They would look at me, and they would curse me out. I didn't understand. I just knew I saw people of all different shades, and I was light. Now, I'm in a much bigger world.

  

  Rihanna
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Ballet is a healthy world despite what people might think. There's a perception that ballet dancers are skinny and unhealthy, but that's rubbish. You have to be strong, so eating regularly and healthily is essential.

  

  Darcey Bussell
  • People
  • World
  • Strong

• I have found myself deeply, deeply intrigued by the ska-punk scene. It's such an expressive form of popular music, it's so real, it's got so much life: it's the most vital music in the world.

  

  David Bowie
  • World
  • Real
  • Scene