David Bowie Quotes
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I had enormous self-image, problems and very low self-esteem, which I hid behind obsessive writing and performing. It's exactly what I do now except I enjoy it now. I'm not driven like I was in my twenties. I was driven to get through life very quickly.
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I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out of my league.
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Ground control to Major Tom.
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People don't get a chance to think, "Why am I a consumer?" Because the decisions come at them so fast and furiously, they're not [even] given time to think, I am a consumer.
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There's a good television programme called 'Disco 2.' It's quite good but again it's average, average. It's all on a down play. You know we've got this thing in England to be hip is to speak very down - like John Peel. And that just about sums up England. They don't realize when they talk like that, then that is what they represent - absolutely.
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I really believe that Bob Dylan and others have speeded up the changes. Pacifism has found a voice at last.
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You should turn around at the end of the day and say I really like that piece of work, or that piece of work sucked. Not, was that popular or wasn't it popular?
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I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.
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On "Tonight" I think I was torn dreadfully between writing what I wanted to write, but keeping it in a style that would follow up what I had just done. That's where I feel I was untrue to myself as an artist . . . that album and, to a lesser extent, "Never Let Me Down."
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The sun machine is coming down, and we're gonna have a party.
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This is a mad planet," David Bowie said in 1971. "It's doomed to madness.
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Am I Machiavellian? I don't think I'm quite the mastermind people would have me be. Everything I do tends to be very successful and it may have something to do with the fact that I'm very good, not necessarily that I manipulate. But that doesn't often occur to people.
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The public, obviously, they takes things in a very simplest fashion and so they should. That's why we have such wonderful television.
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Some make you sing and some make you scream. One makes you wish that you'd never been seen. But there's a shop on the corner that's selling papier mache, making bullet-proof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay. If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.
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Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.
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It's a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there's a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that's how some of us conduct our lives.
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There was a time in America not long ago when rock 'n' roll was called race music, and white kids who wanted to go see Chuck Berry were completely forbidden.
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I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.
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The name Bowie just appealed to me when I was younger. I was into a kind of heavy philosophy thing when I was 16 years old, and I wanted a truism about cutting through the lies and all that.
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There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists. There are good things and bad things about being an artist, and the good thing is, sometimes you get an inside line on what's really happening. You develop these strange antennae that clue you in to what's really going on.
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Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist
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Mine is really - Ziggy Stardust, characters, "Let's Dance." That's me in the American.
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I can't keep my fingers out of any pies.
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I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.