42 Quotes by David Bowie
- Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.
- I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.
- I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.
- 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.
- It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.
- Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.
- 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.
- Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.
- Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.
- There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.
- Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn't see a space in which we could get anything together.
- When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.
- I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.
- 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.
- I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.
- And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.
- 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.
- But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.
- 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.
- I'm always amazed that peole take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.
- I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents.
- I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.
- 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 had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.
- I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part.
- 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.
- I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.
- I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.
- Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.
- The difference between ordinary and extraordinary? That little extra!
- I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't bore you.
- I don't know where I'm going, but I promise it won't be boring.
- I reinvented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.
- We can be heroes just for one day.
- Turn and face the strange.
- I'm always amazed at anyone's interest in what I have to say.
- The only real failure is the failure to try.
- Tommorow belongs to those who can hear it coming.
- I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.
- Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.
- Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.
- Time may change me, but I can't trace time.
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