David Bowie Quotes
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David Bowie Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I once asked [John] Lennon what he thought of what I do. He said 'it's great, but its just rock and roll with lipstick on'.
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.
There's a starman waiting in the sky, he'd like to come and meet us, but he thinks he'd blow our minds.
Frankly, if I could get away with not having to perform, I'd be very happy. It's not my favorite thing to do.
I'm regarded quite asexually by a lot of people. And the people that understand me the best are nearer to what I understand about me.
A lot of people provide me with quotes. They suggest all kinds of things to say and I do, really, because I'm not very hip at all.
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.
I would drive to gigs in my tiny little Fiat. I would shoot up and down the M1 to play at various places.
As you get older the questions come down to two or three. How long have I got and what am I gonna do with the time I've got left?
I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time.
He says he's a beautician and sells you nutrition, and keeps all your dead hair for making underwear.
Lou Reed is the most important definitive writer in modern rock. Not because of the stuff that he does, but the direction that he will take it.
People got extremely comfortable with being able to turn on their television and see MTV say, "This guy's hot you should buy this record."
If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer.
All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.
The truth is, of course, that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.
Age doesn't bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It's the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.
And you, You can be mean And I, I'll drink all the time 'Cause we're lovers, And that is a fact Yes we're lovers, And that is that
You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.
Now I realize that from '72 through to about '76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn't have been more rock star.
I don't expect the human race to progress in too many areas. However, having a child with an ear infection makes one hugely grateful for antibiotics.
I'm a person who can take on the guises of people I meet. I'm a collector, and I collect personalities and ideas.
I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I thought, 'Fuck that. I want to be a superhuman.
Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.
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Hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand and glue.
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.
For here, I'm sitting in a tin can, far above the world. Planet earth is blue, and there is nothing I can do.
I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.
I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement - it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original.
I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think.
I feel confident imposing change on myself. It's a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That's why I need to throw curve balls.