David Bowie Quotes
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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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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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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've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.
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I feel that what I do is always contemporary with the society I'm living in... If I wanted to explain myself, that's how I'd explain myself: that I'm a diarist.
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When I was 9 years old, I wanted to be the baritone sax player in the Little Richard band.
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Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn't see a space in which we could get anything together.
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[David] Bowie had a genius for continual change himself, reinventing his sound and his image throughout the decades. Each album seemed to find Bowie in a different persona, with a new sound to match his new look.
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Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.
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There's something about the style of living in the country that they feel, "This is what represents me." So style is about the philosophy of how we create our civilization.
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We could steal time, just for one day We can be Heroes, for ever and ever What d'you say?
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Church on time, makes me party.
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If I wasn't going through a thing where I was also being my characters offstage, uh, I'm much happier just wearing the most low-profile things that I can come up with just so I can get down the street.
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It's almost a social grace to get into the art world, and I'm very wary of it. Art was good in Berlin in the late '70s - there was a lot more guts to art when the Neo-Expressionists were starting up; it was real slapdash; it has real heart to it - but it seems so cold and heartless in America. It's a buyer's market.
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They [people] mistake fashion for style.
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I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part.
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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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I made a more mature approach to industrial music.
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Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.
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To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.
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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 believe in Beatles, I believe my little soul has grown.
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I could never have done what I did without being involved with Lindsay Kemp's company.
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I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived.