Top 479 Quotes & Sayings by David Bowie - Page 8

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

I never really got the book together for the thing, so I had all the songs and the characters. But by the time we'd gotten it on the road and I'd been doing it for 18 months, oh God, I couldn't wait to move on to something else.

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.

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.

And you, You can be mean And I, I'll drink all the time 'Cause we're lovers, And that is a fact Yes we're lovers, And that is that

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

I heard the news today, oh boy.

Feeling so gay, feeling so gay.

I had very deep concerns about my financial status because I found that up until "Let's Dance" I was virtually broke again. I had been so irresponsible in how I dealt with my financial affairs. I take full responsibility for that.

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

[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz.

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.

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

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

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.

Sits like a man, but smiles like a reptile.

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.

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

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

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

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

Making love with his ego.

I never really had much of an interest in fashion.

Rebel, rebel, you've torn your dress. Rebel, rebel, your face is a mess. Rebel, rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so.

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

Sweet head, give you sweet head.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

All the great mystical religions put a strong emphasis on the redeeming qualities of sex.

No more free steps to heaven.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

My son's full real name is Duncan Zowie Haywood. As a toddler he was called by his second name Zowie. But it was such an identifiable name during the Seventies that if I called him loudly in public places, everyone would turn to stare, so I started calling him Joey to take the pressure off. It has the same sound and number of syllables as Zowie. And Joe stuck for most of his childhood. Now he has reverted to his real name, Duncan. Haywood was my father's name.

TV has eaten up everything else, and Warhol films are all that are left, which is fabulous. Pork could become the next I Love Lucy, the great American domestic comedy. It's about how people really live, not like Lucy, who never touched dishwater. It's about people living and hustling to survive.

Mine is really - Ziggy Stardust, characters, "Let's Dance." That's me in the American.

In fact, in Europe, I'm more kind of this bloke what writes lots of stuff.

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.

The character thing really is sort of, for me, personally, rather ancient history.

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.

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

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

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth. Everything falls into a feeling of 'rightness'.

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.

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.

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

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.

[David] Bowie's last album "Blackstar" featured him backed by a jazz quartet.

Ziggy played guitar, jamming good with Weird and Gilly.