Best 44 quotes in «bowie quotes» category

The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork.

The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young to U2.

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

Whatever. Everyone mispronounces my name. And, like, David Bowie was big before I was born, right?

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

When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.

When I was about 13, 14 - 13, I would carry a magic marker with me everywhere I went so I could write the word "Bowie" on everything that wasn't mine.

And you, You can be mean And I, I'll drink all the time 'Cause we're lovers, And that is a fact Yes we're lovers, And that is that - "Heroes"

Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist.

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

Bowie talks in great, voluble torrents, darting from one topic to the next, parenthesizing and then parenthesizing the parentheses, as if he has too many ideas for one conversation.

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

I have someone who loves me for me. Seriously, it REALLY helps!

I truly fell in love with him when I found he adored reading to people and was good at doing funny voices' - Iman on Bowie

My little China Girl, You shouldn't mess with me - China Girl

Love me, love me, love me, Say you do. Let me fly away with you. For my love is like the wind, And wild is the wind. - Wild is the Wind

My brother was one of the bigger influences in my life, in as much as he told me I didn't have to read the choice of books that I as recommended at school, and that I could go out to the library and go and choose my own, and sort of introduced me to authors that I wouldn't have read.probably. You know, the usual things like the Jack Kerouacs, the Ginsbergs, the ee Cummings and stuff.

It’s almost as if Bronson, Ginsberg and Bowie craved the freedom of letting go, of pushing their mind aside and allowing the vampires and demons and all the other freaks to run them so that they could slip away elsewhere

The bravest thing David Bowie ever did was to go on stage after Queen at Live Aid.

Wham! Bam! Thank You Ma'am! - Suffragette City

Written in pain, written in awe By a puzzled man who questioned What we were here for - Oh! You Pretty Things

Bowie's been a huge influence on me. I remember early on, my dad pulling out the 'Diamond Dogs' album, and the cover alone just grabbed my attention. I think I was probably around 12.

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.

Bowie's obviously my biggest influence.

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

[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz.

David Bowie is such a big influence to me. Everything about him as a person is intriguing to me.

David Bowie was awesome the easiest, coolest interview I have ever done.

David Bowie, for me, was the butchest guy in town. Jagger was like a truck driver.

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

If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was more like the 1950s.. and that's the truth. The backdrop was probably Victorian.

I'd like to go for people I admire - I always gravitate towards the people I idolized when I was a teenager: Cher, Diana Ross, and David Bowie.

If anybody won life, David Bowie did, at least as a creative entity in the sense of writing yourself into existence and writing yourself out in such a graceful swoop.

If I say something about David [Bowie], I get 1000 tweets, if I say something about my business just a few! The more personal, the better.

I listen to a lot of old music, like Joni Mitchell and David Bowie.

I knew about things like Iggy Pop and The Velvet Underground, weirdly, before I knew about David Bowie. I didn't know what David Bowie was, when I was a kid. I thought he was like Visage.

I guess my style is a cross between David Bowie and Clint Eastwood.

I love people like Kate Bush and Stevie Nicks and David Bowie - people that project themselves as characters and that contextualizes the music.

I'm from the same planet as David Bowie.

I went through a pretty big David Bowie period when I was younger, and that has affected me profoundly in my life and my work.

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.

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

I went to glam shows and was inspired by Bowie.

Lady Gaga is proof that David Bowie raped Carol Burnett.