David Bowie Quotes
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I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.
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Hey man, I gotta straighten my face. This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place.
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To be taken seriously about doing something creative and probably travel a lot. That was my motivation. I knew I was good, I knew I could write. I also knew you could get laid really easily.
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It's not the side effects of the cocaine. . . . I'm thinking that it must be love.
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There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I've taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write.
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Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left.
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Elvis is English, and climbs the hills. Can't tell the bullshit from the lies.
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Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.
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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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I'm drawn between the light and dark.
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Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.
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I always write well in New York.
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People are always throwing things at me that I've said and I say that I didn't mean anything.
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As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?
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I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.
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When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all the artforms are the same in the end.
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Critics I don't understand. They get too intellectual. They're not very well-versed in street talk; it takes them longer to say it. So they have to do it in dictionaries and they take longer to say it.
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I think the first experience scared the hell out of me. Within months of my initial marriage [on Angela Bowie], I realized I had done a really naive and rather stupid thing. . . . I don't think either of us had any real resolve about being together. The result was it made me wary of relationships.
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I just put drugs down to luck. I persevere quite honestly, and I've got a fair amount of discipline that keeps me out of deep water.
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If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.
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I would like to believe that people knew what they were fighting for and why they wanted a revolution, and exactly what it was within that they didn't like.
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They [people] mistake fashion for style.
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I think that the history of rock could be recycled in a different way and brought back into focus without the luggage that comes along with it.
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Trying to tart the rock business up a bit is getting nearer to what the kids themselves are like, because what I find, if you want to talk in the terms of rock, a lot depends on sensationalism and the kids are a lot more sensational than the stars themselves.