David Bowie Quotes - Page 9

That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true... Hell, don't pose me that one.

The younger people get into the lyrics in a different way; there's much more of a tactile understanding, which is the way I prefer it.

Hitler was the first superstar.

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.

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.

When I was 9 years old, I wanted to be the baritone sax player in the Little Richard band.

When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.

Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.

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.

For here, am I sitting in a tin can, far above the world. Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do... Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles, I'm feeling very still - and I think my spaceship knows which way to go. Tell my wife I love her very much.

I'm a phallus in pigtails, and there's blood on my nose, and my tissue is rotting where the rats chew my bones. And my eye sockets empty, see nothing but pain, I keep having this brainstorm about twelve times a day.

Ironically, style doesn't come even closely related to fashion. It's got nothing to do [with clothes].

By the mid-'80s, it was really apparent to me that I really needed to stop losing myself in my work and in my addictions. What happens is you just wake up one morning and feel absolutely dead. You can't even drag your soul back into your body. You feel you have negated everything that is wonderful about life. When you have fallen that far, it feels like a miracle when you regain your love of life.

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

You go through stages where you wonder whether you are Christ, or just looking for him.

There's a good television programme called 'Disco 2.' It's quite good but again it's average, average. It's all on a down play. You know we've got this thing in England to be hip is to speak very down - like John Peel. And that just about sums up England. They don't realize when they talk like that, then that is what they represent - absolutely.

I'm a blackstar. I'm a blackstar.

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 went mainstream in a major way with the song "Let's Dance." And what I found I had done was put a box around myself. It was very hard for people to see me as anything other than the person in the suit who did "Let's Dance," and it was driving me mad - because it took all my passion for experimenting away.

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

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

Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.

It is entirely possible to create something totally artificial within the realms of rock and roll.

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.

I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.