David Bowie Quotes
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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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This ain't rock 'n' roll. This is genocide!
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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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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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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 was told that it was cool to fall in love, and that period was nothing like that to me. I gave too much of my time and energy to another person and they did the same to me and we started burning out against each other. And that is what is termed love.
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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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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 never really had much of an interest in fashion.
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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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Always drawn to the theatric, Bowie also performed in stage productions of "The Elephant Man" and just recently collaborated on "Lazarus," an off-Broadway musical that's a sequel to his 1976 role in the film "The Man Who Fell To Earth."
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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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The sun machine is coming down, and we're gonna have a party.
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I ask for so little.Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave
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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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I really believe that Bob Dylan and others have speeded up the changes. Pacifism has found a voice at last.
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This is a mad planet," David Bowie said in 1971. "It's doomed to madness.
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Mine is really - Ziggy Stardust, characters, "Let's Dance." That's me in the American.
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A career of nearly 40 years, is not very long.
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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 only time that I've adopted characterization again since that point, for my own albums, has been an album called "Outside" that I did with Brian Eno.
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Funk, I don't think I have anything to do with funk. I've never considered myself funky.
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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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It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth. Everything falls into a feeling of 'rightness'.