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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'. — David Bowie

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

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth. — David Bowie

Turn and face the strange. — David Bowie

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

There's a starman waiting in the sky, he'd like to come and meet us, but he thinks he'd blow our minds. — David Bowie

There's a taste in my mouth and it's no taste at all. — David Bowie

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

Frankly, if I could get away with not having to perform, I'd be very happy. It's not my favorite thing to do. — David Bowie

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

I'm not David Bowie. Who are we kidding? At the end of the day, I'm the same person I've always been. I'm Don Garvey's son from up the road. — Guy Garvey

There's not much point in getting any heavier ... there's too many things to read and look at. — David Bowie

In my creative life, David Bowie is definitely an enormous influence on me, being one of rock's greatest shapeshifters. — Scott Weiland

Bowie has an unusual face. He's neither a man nor a woman. There's this aura of fantasy that surrounds him. He has flair. — Kansai Yamamoto

They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out. — Lester Bowie

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

It's always time to question what has become standard and established. — David Bowie

It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how hard they lived. — Mick Rock

I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time. — David Bowie

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it's no longer his ... I just see what people make of it. — David Bowie

I'm very shy. That's probably one of the reasons I got so heavily into drugs. — David Bowie

Ironically, style doesn't come even closely related to fashion. It's got nothing to do [with clothes]. — David Bowie

I once went through the dustbin outside David Bowie's house. — Matthew Bourne

He knows everything.He's just so ridiculously well-read that it's ridiculous! You just sit there and you feel quite a worm in comparison. — Brett Anderson

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. — David Bowie

I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me because it's not their profession to do that. — David Bowie

As suburbs go, Bromley's not bad. But as David Bowie and Hanif Kureishi have observed, you do want to get out of there quickly. — Tibor Fischer

If it works, it's out of date. — David Bowie

Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing. — David Bowie

I guess it's flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing. — David Bowie

Hearing that [David] Bowie passed was like you don't really believe it. It's as if the sky shifted a little bit, to remind you it was there. — Babatunde Adebimpe

Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met. — Iman

I think the first song I ever wrote ... was called "Can't Help Thinking About Me." That's an illuminating little piece, isn't it? — David Bowie

Sexuality and where it is going is an extraordinary question, for I don't see it going anywhere. It is with me, and that's it. — David Bowie

We expect the listener to have, like, a movie going on when they hear us. That's what it's all about for us. — Lester Bowie

And I don't care what anybody says; I like doing it, and it's what I shall continue to do — David Bowie

Bowie's a real man, and I'm a real woman - just like Catherine Deneuve. — Iggy Pop

He says he's a beautician and sells you nutrition, and keeps all your dead hair for making underwear. — David Bowie

I don't know how many times someone has come up to me and said, "Hey, Lets dance!". I hate dancing. God, it's stupid. — David Bowie

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." — David Bowie

The name Zahra was to have been lman's own name at birth, but a senior member of the family changed it to lman at the last minute. — David Bowie

I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself. — David Bowie

I was obsessed with David Bowie - still am. He's a babe, a total babe. His music is killer; his visuals are beautiful. — Charlotte Sullivan

I think it's rather a waste of time endlessly singing the same songs every night for a year, and it's just not what I want to do. — David Bowie

Mine is really - Ziggy Stardust, characters, "Let's Dance." That's me in the American. — David Bowie

We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out. — Lester Bowie

I could never have done what I did without being involved with Lindsay Kemp's company. — David Bowie

Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use. — David Bowie

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. — David Bowie

Visions of swastikas in my head, plans for everyone. It's in the Whites of my eyes. — David Bowie

I'm wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It's a real enjoyment. — David Bowie

David Bowie really played with ideas, and iconography and imagery. He's brilliant man. And a gentleman, too. — Madonna Ciccone

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

Bowie's obviously my biggest influence. — Scott Weiland

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

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

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.
David Bowie — David Bowie

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

David Bowie's my favorite musician. I love him above all, but I'm really into rap a lot right now. — Ethan Suplee

There's a terror in knowing what the world is about — David Bowie

I rate Morrissey (Steven Patrick Morrissey) as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry. — David Bowie

The public, obviously, they takes things in a very simplest fashion and so they should. That's why we have such wonderful television. — David Bowie

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

I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents. — David Bowie

[David] Bowie's last album "Blackstar" featured him backed by a jazz quartet. — David Bowie

Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist — David Bowie

So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required. — Bowie Kuhn

The music we play is kind of hard to explain. It's music that we really feel. — Lester Bowie

It's just about really being sensitive, and trying to play a music that is about music. — Lester Bowie

Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one's emotional plane. — David Bowie

The younger people get into the lyrics in a different way; there's much more of a tactile understanding, which is the way I prefer it. — David Bowie

Have an objective to give your bender a theme. For instance, stalking and killing a wild pig with a bowie knife. — Hunter S. Thompson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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