David Bowie Quotes And Sayings

I'm Wallowing In The Whole Idea Of Just Being A Guy Out There With A Band, With Songs. It's A Real Enjoyment.

Songs Don't Have To Be About Going Out On Saturday Night And Having A Good Rink-up And Driving Home And Crashing Cars. A Lot Of What I've Done Is About Alienation... About Where You Fit In Society.

I Think Mustique Is Duchampian - It Will Always Provide An Endless Source Of Delight.

The Absolute Transformation Of Everything That We Ever Thought About Music Will Take Place Within 10 Years, And Nothing Is Going To Be Able To Stop It. I See Absolutely No Point In Pretending That It's Not Going To Happen. I'm Fully Confident That Copyright, For Instance, Will No Longer Exist In 10 Years.

I'm An Early Riser. I Get Up Between Five And Six, Have Coffee, And Read For A Couple Of Hours Before Everyone Else Gets Up.

I Knew That I Was 'Interesting' At 18 Because I Was Aware That I Could Get Away With Doing Things On Stage.

I Would Drive To Gigs In My Tiny Little Fiat. I Would Shoot Up And Down The M1 To Play At Various Places.

When It Comes Down To It, Glam Rock Was All Very Amusing. At The Time, It Was Funny, Then A Few Years Later It Became Sort Of Serious-looking And A Bit Foreboding.

As You Get Older, The Questions Come Down To About Two Or Three. How Long? And What Do I Do With The Time I've Got Left?

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.

Searching For Music Is Like Searching For God. They're Very Similar. There's An Effort To Reclaim The Unmentionable, The Unsayable, The Unseeable, The Unspeakable, All Those Things, Comes Into Being A Composer And To Writing Music And To Searching For Notes And Pieces Of Musical Information That Don't Exist.

I'm An Instant Star. Just Add Water And Stir.

As An Adolescent, I Was Painfully Shy, Withdrawn. I Didn't Really Have The Nerve To Sing My Songs On Stage, And Nobody Else Was Doing Them. I Decided To Do Them In Disguise So That I Didn't Have To Actually Go Through The Humiliation Of Going On Stage And Being Myself.

Heathenism Is A State Of Mind. You Can Take It That I'm Referring To One Who Does Not See His World. He Has No Mental Light. He Destroys Almost Unwittingly. He Cannot Feel Any Gods Presence In His Life. He Is The 21st Century Man.

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.

But I'm Pretty Good With Collaborative Thinking. I Work Well With Other People.

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.

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.

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 Wanted To Prove The Sustaining Power Of Music.

I Went Through All The Musicians In My Life Who I Admire As Bright, Intelligent, Virtuosic Players.

Nearly All The Synth Work On Heathen Is Mine And Some Of The Piano.

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.

What I Do Is I Write Mainly About Very Personal And Rather Lonely Feelings, And I Explore Them In A Different Way Each Time. You Know, What I Do Is Not Terribly Intellectual. I'm A Pop Singer For Christ's Sake. As A Person, I'm Fairly Uncomplicated.

Sometimes You Stumble Across A Few Chords That Put You In A Reflective Place.

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.

Strangely, Some Songs You Really Don't Want To Write.

When You Think About It, Adolf Hitler Was The First Pop Star.

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 Don't Know Where I'm Going From Here, But I Promise It Won't Be Boring.

I'm Always Amazed That People Take What I Say Seriously. I Don't Even Take What I Am Seriously.

It Would Be My Guess That Madonna Is Not A Very Happy Woman. From My Own Experience, Having Gone Through Persona Changes Like That, That Kind Of Clawing Need To Be The Center Of Attention Is Not A Pleasant Place To Be.

Tomorrow Belongs To Those Who Can Hear It Coming.

Funk, I Don't Think I Have Anything To Do With Funk. I've Never Considered Myself Funky.

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.

Confront A Corpse At Least Once. The Absolute Absence Of Life Is The Most Disturbing And Challenging Confrontation You Will Ever Have.

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.

When I'm Stuck For A Closing To A Lyric, I Will Drag Out My Last Resort: Overwhelming Illogic.

Fame Can Take Interesting Men And Thrust Mediocrity Upon Them.

I'm In Awe Of The Universe, But I Don't Necessarily Believe There's An Intelligence Or Agent Behind It. I Do Have A Passion For The Visual In Religious Rituals, Though, Even Though They May Be Completely Empty And Bereft Of Substance. The Incense Is Powerful And Provocative, Whether Buddhist Or Catholic.

Questioning My Spiritual Life Has Always Been Germane To What I Was Writing. Always. It's Because I'm Not Quite An Atheist And It Worries Me. There's That Little Bit That Holds On: 'Well, I'm Almost An Atheist. Give Me A Couple Of Months.'

I'm Very At Ease, And I Like It. I Never Thought I Would Be Such A Family-oriented Guy; I Didn't Think That Was Part Of My Makeup. But Somebody Said That As You Get Older You Become The Person You Always Should Have Been, And I Feel That's Happening To Me. I'm Rather Surprised At Who I Am, Because I'm Actually Like My Dad!

Music Itself Is Going To Become Like Running Water Or Electricity. So It's Like, Just Take Advantage Of These Last Few Years Because None Of This Is Ever Going To Happen Again. You'd Better Be Prepared For Doing A Lot Of Touring Because That's Really The Only Unique Situation That's Going To Be Left.

I'm Not Very Articulate.

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.

I'm Well Past The Age Where I'm Acceptable. You Get To A Certain Age And You Are Forbidden Access. You're Not Going To Get The Kind Of Coverage That You Would Like In Music Magazines, You're Not Going To Get Played On Radio And You're Not Going To Get Played On Television. I Have To Survive On Word Of Mouth.

I'm Not One Of Those Guys That Has A Great Worldview. I Kind Of Deal With Terror And Fear And Isolation And Abandonment.

What I Have Is A Malevolent Curiosity. That's What Drives My Need To Write And What Probably Leads Me To Look At Things A Little Askew. I Do Tend To Take A Different Perspective From Most People.

Glam Really Did Plant Seeds For A New Identity. I Think A Lot Of Kids Needed That - That Sense Of Reinvention. Kids Learned That However Crazy You May Think It Is, There Is A Place For What You Want To Do And Who You Want To Be.

I Change My Mind A Lot. I Usually Don't Agree With What I Say Very Much. I'm An Awful Liar.