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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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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