David Bowie Quotations | Page 3

Nature Boy There was a boy A very strange enchanted boy They say he wandered very far, very far Over land and sea A little shy And sad of eye But very wise Was he And then one day A magic day he passed my way And while we spoke of many things, fools and kings This he said to me “The greatest thing You’ll ever learn Is just to love And be loved In return

Church on time, makes me party.

There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I've taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write.

I'm drawn between the light and dark.

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

It's a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there's a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that's how some of us conduct our lives.

In my madness I see your face in mine.

Ground control to Major Tom.

I'm very shy. That's probably one of the reasons I got so heavily into drugs.

Hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand and glue.

Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.

Make the best of every moment. We're not evolving. We're not going anywhere.

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

It's much easier for me to say that, the kind of music I didn't listen to was pretty much that. I mean everything, from jazz to classical to popular. And Tibetan horns were a great part of it in 1966, '67.

I think the first song I ever wrote ... was called "Can't Help Thinking About Me." That's an illuminating little piece, isn't it?

It always felt like you were trying too hard to look like the audience or something. That whole thing about the artistic integrity, which, of course, I've never bought into - with any artist. It's just not a real thing.

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

It makes me sad when I see artists who come alive when they go onstage, because, gee, I really come alive when I'm home.

I have to take total control myself. I can't let anybody else do anything, for I find that I can do things better for me. I don't want to get other people playing with what they think that I'm trying to do.

I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out of my league.

Don't let me hear you say life takes you nowhere, angel.

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'll place my love beneath the stars.

My particular thing is discovering what can be done with media and how it can be used. You can't draw people together like one big huge family, people don't want that. They want isolation or a tribal thing.

Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth.

You write down a paragraph or two describing several different subjects creating a kind of story ingredients-list, I suppose, and then cut the sentences into four or five-word sections; mix em up and reconnect them. You can get some pretty interesting idea combinations like this. You can use them as is or, if you have a craven need to not lose control, bounce off these ideas and write whole new sections.

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

This ain't rock 'n' roll; this is genocide

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.

I met my wife because we were both going out with the same guy.

I haven't changed my views much since I was about 12, really, I've just got a 12-year-old mentality.When I was in school I had a brother who was into Kerouac and he gave me On The Road to read when I was 12 years old. That's still been a big influence.

All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author. There is no authoritative voice. There are only multiple readings.

In your fear, seek only peace. In your fear, seek only love.

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.

They're the salt of the earth, those girls. They don't sit each night and compare notes on groups, criticising lyrics, asking if it's valid. They just play the record... yeah, and maybe they dance. I love them. I love them dearly

They [people] mistake fashion for style.

I made a more mature approach to industrial music.

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.

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

Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression?

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

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.

I'm a thinker not a talker.

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

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.

Love is every type of relationship that you think of... I'm sure it means relationship, every type of relationship that you can think of.

Fame puts you there where things are hollow.

Sweet head, give you sweet head.

I've been putting out the fire with gasoline.

I've always been very chauvinistic, even in my boy-obsessed days. But I was always a gentleman. I alwaysd treated my boys like real ladies. Always escorted them properly and, in fact, I suppose if I were a lot older - like 40 or 50 - I'd be a wonderful sugar daddy to some little queen down in Kensington. I'd have a houseboy named Richard to order around.

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

He says he's a beautician and sells you nutrition, and keeps all your dead hair for making underwear.

You've got your mother in a whirl, she's not sure if your a boy or a girl.

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

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

A lot of people provide me with quotes. They suggest all kinds of things to say and I do, really, because I'm not very hip at all.

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

I'm English. I can't accept happiness that easily. There's got to be a trick in there somewhere.

I'm afraid of Americans; I'm afraid of the world; I'm afraid I can't help it.

Someday, I'm gonna write a poem in a letter; Someday, I'm gonna get that faculty together.

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

When the musical keyboard was created in the 1970's, you had electronic geeks that had no background in music created these devises and gave them to musicians that had no background in electronics. The result was some of the wierd sounds that came out in the '70s.

I'm still younger than Jagger... Most people are.

You can't go on stage and live - it's false all the way. I can't stand the premise of going out in jeans and a guitar and looking as real as you can in front of 18,000 people. I mean, it's not normal!

See the mice in their million hordes From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads.

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

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.

Hitler was the first superstar.

I was always accused of being cold and unfeeling. It was because I was intimidated about touching people.

I think music should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself. It should be the clown, the Pierrot medium.

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

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

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

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.

I got a bad migraine that lasted 3 years, and the pills I took made by fingers disappear.

Making love with his ego.

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.

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

Sits like a man, but smiles like a reptile.

Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.

Bully for you, chilly for me, got to get a raincheck on pain.

There's a taste in my mouth and it's no taste at all.

If it works, it's out of date.

No more free steps to heaven.

Hey man, I gotta straighten my face. This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place.

If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.

Some make you sing and some make you scream. One makes you wish that you'd never been seen. But there's a shop on the corner that's selling papier mache, making bullet-proof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay. If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.

I'll stick with you baby for a thousand years.

She's a total bam bam.

Elvis is English, and climbs the hills. Can't tell the bullshit from the lies.

I am a D.J., I am what I play.

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

He's a friendly and caring guy whom I really respect for his knowledge of touring. Not to mention my favorite brand of coffee is consistently backstage every night.

I read the news today, oh boy.

I'm always amazed that peole take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I 'am' seriously.

We can be Heroes, Just for one day

When Brian and I came back together this time, we found that we'd gone through very similar psychological states during the course of the '80s.

Illusion I will be, for I've never been a sinner.

Oooh, fashion, we are the goon squad and were coming to town, beep beep.

Ziggy played guitar, jamming good with Weird and Gilly.