David Bowie Quotes
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For here, am I sitting in a tin can, far above the world. Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do... Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles, I'm feeling very still - and I think my spaceship knows which way to go. Tell my wife I love her very much.
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Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one’s emotional plane.
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I made a more mature approach to industrial music.
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Rebel, rebel, you've torn your dress. Rebel, rebel, your face is a mess. Rebel, rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so.
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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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Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.
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I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.
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TV has eaten up everything else, and Warhol films are all that are left, which is fabulous. Pork could become the next I Love Lucy, the great American domestic comedy. It's about how people really live, not like Lucy, who never touched dishwater. It's about people living and hustling to survive.
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I haven't changed my views much since I was about 12, really, I've just got a 12-year-old mentality.When I was in school I had a brother who was into Kerouac and he gave me On The Road to read when I was 12 years old. That's still been a big influence.
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People got extremely comfortable with being able to turn on their television and see MTV say, "This guy's hot you should buy this record."
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Wham, bam, thank you Ma'am.
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I have a very strong paternal streak. I'm a born father...I get such enjoyment out of being with children. Now they are enjoyable little things. They really are. I like their kind of humor. You can stuff all your punk bands, give me three children instead.
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Sweet head, give you sweet head.
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One day in Berlin ... Eno came running in and said, 'I have heard the sound of the future.' ... he puts on 'I Feel Love', by Donna Summer ... He said, 'This is it, look no further. This single is going to change the sound of club music for the next fifteen years.' Which was more or less right.
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If it works, it's out of date.
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There's not much point in getting any heavier... there's too many things to read and look at.
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I liked rock music, I kind of moved into that sphere, somehow thinking that somewhere along the line I'd be able to put the two together. And I suppose I very nearly did with the Ziggy character.
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Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.
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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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The younger people get into the lyrics in a different way; there's much more of a tactile understanding, which is the way I prefer it.
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1961 was when I was really into clothes. I left school at 15 and started copying a bloke who used to go up on the train to London with me; Leslie, I think his name was. He was like, top mod of his own area. He wore Italian jackets with white linen jeans. Boy, was that cool! I mean, that's in style now - it's very much the L.A. look. But he was wearing it then, and it looked supercool.
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The underground went really underground. Grand Funk, and all these people man are the moderate's choice of music. Underground is Yoko Ono, The Black Poets. These people scare the hell out of most freaks. They laugh at Yoko Ono, but it's the whole cliché.
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When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.
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When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.