David Bowie Quotes

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

Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one’s emotional plane.

Time may change me, but I can't trace time.

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

You can begin really looking for a relationship . . . when you can (appreciate) the whole concept of giving to someone, not just taking.

I'll ruin everything you are, I'll give you television.

Touring with Iggy Pop was something to do. It was good fun. I got drunk a lot.

Hitler was the first superstar.

There was a time in America not long ago when rock 'n' roll was called race music, and white kids who wanted to go see Chuck Berry were completely forbidden.

There's something about the style of living in the country that they feel, "This is what represents me." So style is about the philosophy of how we create our civilization.

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.

Funk, I don't think I have anything to do with funk. I've never considered myself funky.

It's not the side-effects of the cocaine - I'm thinking that it must be love. It's too late to be grateful, It's too late to be hateful, It's too late to be late again, The European cannon is here.

I woke up one day and realized I was a closet hetero

I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings.

Fame puts you there where things are hollow.

It would be positively boring if minds were in tune.

Never bored, so I'll never get old

Of course, we found out later Syd Barrett had mental problems. But there was something so otherworldly about him. He was hovering, like, six inches above the ground.

I would like to believe that people knew what they were fighting for and why they wanted a revolution, and exactly what it was within that they didn't like.

I feel that what I do is always contemporary with the society I'm living in... If I wanted to explain myself, that's how I'd explain myself: that I'm a diarist.

People are always throwing things at me that I've said and I say that I didn't mean anything.

If we could be heroes, if just for one day.

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

Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.

I'm not actually a very keen performer. I like putting shows together. I like putting events together.

I don't mind trying it out and making sure something seems to work well.

I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

I think everything that I learned about stagecraft and carrying through - creating a through point for a theatrical device.

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

She's a total bam bam.

I guess, people like myself and Roxy Music that had a different agenda about taking up music.

I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.

Is it Nice in your snowstorm- freezing your brain? Do you think that your face looks the same?

I can't keep my fingers out of any pies.

I had a fantasy that i'd drift up to Scotland and spend my life as a faux bodhisattua.

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.

Secret thinker sometimes listening aloud.

The media is either our salvation or our death.

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

I think that the history of rock could be recycled in a different way and brought back into focus without the luggage that comes along with it.

But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it's the recording or the performance side.

People don't get a chance to think, "Why am I a consumer?" Because the decisions come at them so fast and furiously, they're not [even] given time to think, I am a consumer.

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

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

You'd like to know me well, but I've got things inside my head that even I can't face.

It is entirely possible to create something totally artificial within the realms of rock and roll.

When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all the artforms are the same in the end.