David Bowie Quotes
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I started playing around with local rock band swith the alto. And then, in a nutshell, somebody fell ill one night, the lead singer of one of the bands, and they knew I could sing, so they asked me if I would stand in. And I quite enjoyed it, actually, I must say, at 14. It was a real trip to have girls wave at you and smile and everything just because you opened your mouth and sang.
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[While] my life started taking on all the problems of addiction. So that took me off into an area where relationships were absolutely impossible to handle on any real level. . . . Even communicating with other people was impossible.
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I am a moderately good singer. I am not a great singer but I can interpret a song, which I don't think is quite the same as singing it.
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Who'll love Aladdin Sane? Battle cries and champagne just in time for sunrise.
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I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.
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If I hadn't had my children, I would have been discouraged a lot quicker. It would have been much more easy for me to say, "You know what, let the whole thing go. Have a good time, because these people, this place - it's just not worth it." You know? I can't do that anymore. I look into those eyes and they look at me so trustingly that I'm gonna make sure that [they're thinking], "Hey, you did a good thing bringing me into the world, daddy. I'm going to have a great life!"
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I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents.
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I think everything that I learned about stagecraft and carrying through - creating a through point for a theatrical device.
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The people who don't know so much about me regard me more sexually.
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I spent so much time in my bedroom. It really was my entire world. I had books up there, my music up there, my record player. Going from my world upstairs out onto the street, I had to pass through this no-man's-land of the living room, you know, and out the front hall.
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Actually, my ambition at eight or nine years old was to be one of Little Richard's sax players, and that's when I got my first saxophone, a Selmer. It was a strange Bakelite material - that creamy plastic with all the gold keys on it. I had to get a job as a butcher's delivery boy to start paying for it.
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I kind of miss that "becoming" stage, as most times you really don't know what's around the corner. Now, of course, I've kind of knocked on the door and heard a muffled answer. Nevertheless, I still don't know what the voice is saying, or even what language it's in.
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Listen to me, don't listen to me. Talk to me, don't talk to me.
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I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.
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I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.
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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.
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Illusion I will be, for I've never been a sinner.
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I've come to the realisation that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing half the time...
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Oooh, fashion, we are the goon squad and were coming to town, beep beep.
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The coming together of people I find obscene as a principle. It is not human. It is not a natural thing as some people would have us believe.
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We can't stop trying til we break up our minds, til the sun drips blood on the seedy young knight.
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I guess a certain contingent of the musicians in London at the beginning of the '70s were fed up with denim and the hippies. And I think we kind of wanted to go somewhere else.
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Of course, we found out later Syd Barrett had mental problems. But there was something so otherworldly about him. He was hovering, like, six inches above the ground.
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The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.