David Bowie Quotes - Page 11

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

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

I just put drugs down to luck. I persevere quite honestly, and I've got a fair amount of discipline that keeps me out of deep water.

Listen to me, don't listen to me. Talk to me, don't talk to me.

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.

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.

We see each other [ with Iman Abdulmajid] a lot. I couldn't stand to be separated for months. It became quickly apparent to me that I needed to find a balance between my absolute work obsession and a private life that we could share without my disappearing all the time.

I guess, - a greater number of the 26 or so albums that I've made are known in Europe than they are in America.

Always drawn to the theatric, Bowie also performed in stage productions of "The Elephant Man" and just recently collaborated on "Lazarus," an off-Broadway musical that's a sequel to his 1976 role in the film "The Man Who Fell To Earth."

Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.

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 went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both classes, so I have a pretty fair idea of how people live and why they do it.

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!

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.

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.

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

Why bother choosing a certain chair? Because that chair says something about you.

The people who don't know so much about me regard me more sexually.

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

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

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

I have absolutely no interest in rock and roll. I'm just being David Bowie. Mick Jagger is rock and roll. I mean, I go out and my music is roughly the format of rock and roll, I use the chord changes of rock and roll, but I don't feel I'm a rock and roll artist. I'd be a terrible rock artist, absolutely ghastly.

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

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.