David Bowie Quotes - Page 14

I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.

I didn't say that wearing a glamorization of the rock artist was any truer from the other thing.

My father worked for a children's home called Dr. Barnardo's Homes. They're a charity.

If I put faith in medication, if I can smile a crooked smile, if I can talk on television, if I can walk an empty mile.

I don't think I did anything that my contemporaries didn't; it was just that I was the only one who talked about it. In the Sixties anyone who had a sense of style seemed to be gay. I wanted to indentify with that.

We slit the Catholic throat, stoned the poor on such slogans as wish you could hear and love is all we need.

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

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

Keep your 'lectric eye on me babe Put your ray gun to my head Press your space face close to mine, love Freak out in a moonage daydream, oh yeah!

I think Lindsay Kemp really introduced me to the work of Jean Genet, and through that, I kind of kept re-educating myself about other prose writers and poets.

I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals.

Visions of swastikas in my head, plans for everyone. It's in the Whites of my eyes.

I heard the news today, oh boy.

I thought that I could do some kind of vehicle involving rock musicals and presenting rock and characters and storyline in a completely different fashion.

People who had been treated inhumanly, not given a chance to secure any foot on any ladder - and all the social mores were suddenly abandoned.

With "Let's Dance," there was actually a chance that I was actually going to be able to keep the money I had made.

When we decided to marry, we had two ceremonies - one was more bureaucratic for the sake of the Swiss authorities,then a church service in Florence, and I wrote the music for the church service. The challenge in that was that Iman's [Abdulmajid] family are Muslim and mine are Protestant. I had to be careful about the prayers that we chose and the music I wrote because I didn't want to offend either side.

I think a lot of that album ["Tonight" ] is still very good . . . the songs, but I think I was indifferent to the arrangements.

When I was going through those very fast changes, I think it was terribly important to me that I was seen to be inventive. I think that was the characteristic of my work that I wanted people to see.

I think I am a lot more relaxed about what I have or haven't done.

Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.

I don't like talk and I don't like talkers. Like Ma Barker. That's what she always said, 'Ma Barker doesn't like talk and she doesn't like talkers.' She just sat there with her gun.

I think getting married and then running away for 10 months would be an absolute disaster.

Sits like a man, but smiles like a reptile.

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