David Bowie Quotes - Page 15

Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.

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

Sexuality and where it is going is an extraordinary question, for I don't see it going anywhere. It is with me, and that's it.

Let the children use it, let the children lose it, let all the children boogie.

A mutual friend knew that we were both [with Iman Abdulmajid] on our own, with broken marriages and with children. We were brought to dinner one night. . . . It was absolutely instantaneous. I couldn't get her out of my mind . . . sleepless nights - real 18-year-old stuff.

I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

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

I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I'm proud of what I've done. In fact it's been a good ride.

Who'll love Aladdin Sane? Battle cries and champagne just in time for sunrise.

I think that my fascination with clothes generally was motivated by trying to create the characters for the stage.

I never really had much of an interest in fashion.

Strung out on lasers and slash back blazers.

I guess Ziggy would have been the perfect vehicle to have done with.

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

Ziggy played guitar, jamming good with Weird and Gilly.

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

[David] Bowie had a genius for continual change himself, reinventing his sound and his image throughout the decades. Each album seemed to find Bowie in a different persona, with a new sound to match his new look.

David Bowie emerged as a rock star in the late '60s. And as Ken Tucker wrote, "In the face of the hippy era's sincerity, intimacy and generosity, Bowie presented irony, distance and self-absorption. His song 'Changes' announced the arrival of a new counterculture," unquote.

He took it all too far, but boy could he play guitar.

There's not much point in getting any heavier... there's too many things to read and look at.

Things have to hit for the moment. That's one of the reasons I'm into video; the image has to hit immediately. I adore video and the whole cutting up of it.

I think I quite desperately wanted to have that kind of special companionship [like marriage ] . . . a special relationship, yet I hid from it for many, many years and pretended to be cynical about it.

We can't stop trying til we break up our minds, til the sun drips blood on the seedy young knight.

I don't believe in proper cinema; it doesn't have the strength of television. People having to go out to the cinema is really archaic. I'd much rather sit at home.

Sweet head, give you sweet head.