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What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do. — David Bowie

Turn and face the strange. — David Bowie

There seem to be a lot of black artists making very good videos that I'm surprised aren't being used on MTV. — David Bowie

What about David Bowie? He's a sexy creature. — John Galliano

When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire. — David Bowie

Strung out on lasers and slash back blazers. — David Bowie

Time
He flexes like a whore
Falls wanking to the floor
His trick is you and me, boy — David Bowie

These people are interested in a wide variety of music, and that's what we're into. — Lester Bowie

My sexual nature is irrelevant. I'm an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself. — David Bowie

Rock has always been THE DEVIL'S MUSIC ... I believe rock and roll is dangerous ... I feel we're only heralding SOMETHING EVEN DARKER THAN OURSELVES. — David Bowie

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.
David Bowie — David Bowie

I think Mustique is Duchampian - it will always provide an endless source of delight. — David Bowie

Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough. — David Bowie

Salary arbitration is probably in place - was put in place then and probably is in place now - because I supported it. — Bowie Kuhn

As I always said: I fell in with David Jones. I did not fall in love with David Bowie. — Iman

I listen to a lot of old music, like Joni Mitchell and David Bowie. — Sophie McShera

David Bowie, for me, was the butchest guy in town. Jagger was like a truck driver. — Hedi Slimane

If you're sad today, just remember the world is over 4 billion years old and you somehow managed to exist at the same time as David Bowie. — Simon Pegg

I am a big David Bowie fan. — Kristen Wiig

How I love David Bowie. — Lady Gaga

Crockett and James Bowie got what was coming to them," Mom said, "for stealing this land from the Mexicans — Jeannette Walls

Sometimes I don't feel as if I'm a person at all. I'm just a collection of other people's ideas. — David Bowie

I'm English. I can't accept happiness that easily. There's got to be a trick in there somewhere. — David Bowie

I'm drawn between the light and dark. — David Bowie

See the mice in their million hordes
From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads. — David Bowie

His name is David Bowie and he's nineteen. Would you like to meet him? — Tony Visconti

We can be "heroes" just for one day. — David Bowie

You can't stand still on one point for your entire life. — David Bowie

They [people] mistake fashion for style. — David Bowie

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. — David Bowie

Fame puts you there where things are hollow. — David Bowie

You've got your mother in a whirl, she's not sure if your a boy or a girl. — David Bowie

I made a more mature approach to industrial music. — David Bowie

Love is every type of relationship that you think of ... I'm sure it means relationship, every type of relationship that you can think of. — David Bowie

My father worked for a children's home called Dr. Barnardo's Homes. They're a charity. — David Bowie

The minute you know you're on safe ground, you're dead — David Bowie

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them. — David Bowie

I'm not at ease with the word "love." — David Bowie

Secret thinker sometimes listening aloud. — David Bowie

It would be positively boring if minds were in tune. — David Bowie

People look to me to see what the spirit of the Seventies is. — David Bowie

This is a mad planet," David Bowie said in 1971. "It's doomed to madness. — David Bowie

Bowie's been a huge influence on me. — Adam Lambert

From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience. — David Bowie

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity. — David Bowie

I hated most music in the 1970s, especially disco, but Bowie was edgier. — Anton Du Beke

I guess Ziggy would have been the perfect vehicle to have done with. — David Bowie

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 — David Bowie

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring. — David Bowie

People will keep the TV on even if a show is on that they hate - because, unfortunately, they've been programmed to do that. — David Bowie

I woke up one day and realized I was a closet hetero — David Bowie

The end comes when the infinites arrive. — David Bowie

You play ensemble things that you had no idea you were going to play two minutes before. — Lester Bowie

The character thing really is sort of, for me, personally, rather ancient history. — David Bowie

You know, I don't feel fifty. I feel not a day over forty-nine. It's incredible. I'm bouncy, I feel bouncy. — David Bowie

In fact, in Europe, I'm more kind of this bloke what writes lots of stuff. — David Bowie

David Bowie in that Labyrinth movie. That guy is all seeing, all knowing. Has a crystal ball or something. What he doesn't know doesn't exist. — C.J. Duggan

I never really had much of an interest in fashion. — David Bowie

Written in pain, written in awe
By a puzzled man who questioned
What we were here for — David Bowie

I'm a born librarian with a sex drive — David Bowie

I've learned to relax and be my present age and my present position. I feel comfortable on my mid-thirties. It doesn't seem such an alien place to be. — David Bowie

[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz. — David Bowie

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. — David Bowie

I think music should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself. It should be the clown, the Pierrot medium. — David Bowie

Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity. — David Bowie

I have someone who loves me for me. Seriously, it REALLY helps! — David Bowie

Bully for you, chilly for me, got to get a raincheck on pain. — David Bowie

I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants. — David Bowie

In order to look special wearing the chancy unique; it must be worn with your persona, and if the two don't blend, then the look becomes pear-shaped. — David Bowie

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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Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence. — David Bowie

Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am! — David Bowie

Comfort comes into your house first as guest, then as a host, then finally as the master. — David Bowie

Rock's always been the devil's music. — David Bowie

Shoot you down. Bang bang. — David Bowie

Good grief," said Merlin. "You look like the bastard child of
Dumbledore and David Bowie. No, sorry, Dumbledore and Ziggy
Stardust. — FayJay

Hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand and glue. — David Bowie

I'm not a natural performer. I don't like performing very much. — David Bowie

All Montreal bands have around nine members, I believe. — David Bowie

Turn and face the strange changes. — David Bowie

I can ask for cigarettes in every language — David Bowie

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me. — David Bowie

I never really felt like a rock singer or a rock star or whatever. — David Bowie

Bowie is less about trappings and more about the traps that seek to limit human potential. — Mark Paytress

Now I realize that from '72 through to about '76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn't have been more rock star. — David Bowie

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. — David Bowie

The only art I'll ever study is stuff that I can steal from. — David Bowie

What I've been trying to do for years is to get the music played on a station other than jazz stations, you know, to expand the audience. — Lester Bowie

Many times you never know what's going to happen. You'll play songs that you never thought you were going to play. — Lester Bowie

When I was 9 years old, I wanted to be the baritone sax player in the Little Richard band. — David Bowie

Now U2's not my favorite band, but I do respect them, and in the same way I respect Bowie: They change without fear of change. — Trent Reznor

I'm a person who can take on the guises of people I meet. I'm a collector, and I collect personalities and ideas. — David Bowie

Listen to me, don't listen to me. Talk to me, don't talk to me. — David Bowie

Money goes to money heaven, body goes to body hell. — David Bowie

Bowie Comeback Makes Top 10 Singles Chart 2.52M — Alain De Botton

Bowie's obviously my biggest influence. — Scott Weiland

Sits like a man, but smiles like a reptile. — David Bowie

Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold. — David Bowie

In your fear, seek only peace. In your fear, seek only love. — David Bowie

I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker. — David Bowie