David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
When I was 9 years old, I wanted to be the baritone sax player in the Little Richard band.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
-
It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret.
-
I know about the tech industry in that I follow what apps are hot and software development. I know my way around different browsers. I know how to restart a computer.
-
But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.
-
In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
-
For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
-
Solar power is going to be absolutely essential to meeting growing energy demands while staving off climate change.
-
I can handle coming fifth as long as I know I've given my all out there and have no regrets.
-
Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
-
Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.
-
Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
-
I have three daughters. I wanted them to be raised where there are real seasons and where everyone their age wasn't trying to get into movies.
-
I think New Order have got their own sound. But what we like to do is experiment, using dance music and other things.
-
I'm South American, and growing up in New York, I had the total stereotypical way of thinking of what Texas was about. I'm like, Texas. Big. Cows. Cowboys. Cowboy hats and cowboy boots. And barbeque.
-
While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.
-
In 'Kill Rock n' Roll,' the choruses came about at the moment I was listening to a lot of the Supremes, and if you listen to that part, you can hear a melody and a harmony there that's not too far away from what the Supremes would probably be doing, but there's heavy guitars in the back.
-
Very little gets offered to me. I have to audition and bawl my eyes out. For 'Broadchurch,' the scene was Danny lying on the mortuary table. I can't remember the last audition I had where I didn't come out drenched in sweat, puffy-eyed.
-
Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions, courage that could be described as 'grace under pressure' - grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.
-
Too often the reformer has been one who caused the rich to band themselves against the poor.
-
The band we have now on stage is the band I always wanted to be in.
-
Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
-
When I was 9 years old, I wanted to be the baritone sax player in the Little Richard band.
