David Bowie Quotes

I've been putting out the fire with gasoline.

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

I have found myself deeply, deeply intrigued by the ska-punk scene. It's such an expressive form of popular music, it's so real, it's got so much life: it's the most vital music in the world.

I guess a certain contingent of the musicians in London at the beginning of the '70s were fed up with denim and the hippies. And I think we kind of wanted to go somewhere else.

You go through stages where you wonder whether you are Christ, or just looking for him.

They [people] mistake fashion for style.

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

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.

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.

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

The best DJs in the world know how to pull in music from all over the place and make it work as a cohesive whole.

I'd rather stay here with all the madmen than perish with the sadmen roaming free.

I made a more mature approach to industrial music.

I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

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

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

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

I believe in Beatles, I believe my little soul has grown.

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.

I really believe that Bob Dylan and others have speeded up the changes. Pacifism has found a voice at last.

It's odd but even when I was a kid, I would write about 'old and other times' as though I had a lot of years behind me. Now I do, so there is a difference in the weight of memory.

I ask for so little.Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave

If it works, it's out of date.

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.

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

I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12.

The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation.

Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.

However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.

A career of nearly 40 years, is not very long.

The sun machine is coming down, and we're gonna have a party.

Rebel, rebel, you've torn your dress. Rebel, rebel, your face is a mess. Rebel, rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so.

Nothing prepared me for your smile

I don't like people probing into my life, so I reveal as little as possible or lie about it as much as need be so as to give them something to write about.

When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.

It was fun to be clever.

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

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.

Church on time, makes me party.

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.

It's not the side effects of the cocaine. . . . I'm thinking that it must be love.

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."

The only time that I've adopted characterization again since that point, for my own albums, has been an album called "Outside" that I did with Brian Eno.

I'm bemused by the whole Robbie Williams aspect of British pop. Posh Spice? It all looks like cruise ship entertainment to me.

I've come to the realisation that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing half the time...

I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.

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

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

I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.