Top 267 Bowie Quotes & Sayings

I think the first older artist I related to and loved was Bowie.

I'm a massive Bowie fan, always have been.

Just as Bowie, Zeppelin, etc., became rock stars by remaking themselves in the image of the California girls, the Go-Gos became rock stars by pretending to be the Buzzcocks and the Sex Pistols. Jane Wiedlin always said her biggest influence was growing up in L.A. as a Bowie girl.

I think there are some people who have taken on fame in extraordinary ways, like Madonna, David Bowie, and Michael Jackson. There are other people who have taken it on in a completely different way, like Prince - who is just as famous and has achieved just as much - but is still unbelievably mysterious, which I guess Bowie managed to hold as well. There are different ways of dealing with it, and for some people I think it becomes an art form of how you put yourself out there, and for other people it's literally a way of life, it's who you are, you act like a celebrity.

Bowie's obviously my biggest influence.

Bowie is my dad's stage name, so I was never, ever called Zowie Bowie. The tabloids liked that because it rhymed.

David Bowie and Elvis Presley are my style icons.

I knew about things like Iggy Pop and The Velvet Underground, weirdly, before I knew about David Bowie. I didn't know what David Bowie was, when I was a kid. I thought he was like Visage.

I'm a '70s guy at heart. I play a lot of Bowie and 10cc at home.

David Bowie told me my music sounds like tomorrow

I hated most music in the 1970s, especially disco, but Bowie was edgier.

Bowie's death is a very emotional thing. My generation of working-class Britain, it feels like we lost our spiritual leader, our guru. I always thought that if I was to be a hundred, somehow Bowie would be a hundred and fifteen. He'd be there to still steer me and guide me.

Beastie Boys and David Bowie are two of my favorite artists.

I was David Bowie-thin up to about 28, and then I discovered food.

Harper Lee was my David Bowie, and I feel her loss in my bones.

How I love David Bowie.

Bowie would show up with one eyebrow, so we all shaved our eyebrows.

Lady Gaga is proof that David Bowie raped Carol Burnett.

I listen to a lot of old music, like Joni Mitchell and David Bowie.

It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll. I've listened to 'Ziggy Stardust' as much as any rock n' roll fan - I don't really know what it's about, but it sure is fun to think about David Bowie as this mad creation.

I just love Bowie. I think he's the ultimate inventor.

Berlin inspired Bowie and stirred him to write about real, important matters.

[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.

I saw David Bowie in 'Labyrinth' when I was seven or eight. I told my mom I wanted a Bowie record, so we traveled to the mainland, which was, like, a three-hour trip, and I bought 'Let's Dance' and 'Tonight.' 'Let's Dance' blew my little mind. I became obsessed with it.

David Bowie's music is a moving target. Just when you think you got the bullseye, it shifts. And to his credit, on to death, it's still shifting. David Bowie is a moving target, even after he's gone.

I didn't love David Bowie. Sure, I loved a lot of his songs, like everybody else, and, like everybody else, I had an incarnation of Bowie that I loved best - in my case, the solemn 'art-rock' Bowie of the late Seventies.

I once went through the dustbin outside David Bowie's house.

Bowie's my hero.

If you took a couple of David Bowies and stuck one of the David Bowies on the top of the other David Bowie, then attached another David Bowie to the end of each of the arms of the upper of the first two David Bowies and wrapped the whole business up in a dirty beach robe you would then have something which didn't exactly look like John Watson, but which those who knew him would find hauntingly familiar.

David Bowie, for me, was the butchest guy in town. Jagger was like a truck driver.

I'm from the same planet as David Bowie.

What about David Bowie? He's a sexy creature.

This is a mad planet," David Bowie said in 1971. "It's doomed to madness.

I would have loved to meet David Bowie.

I am a big David Bowie fan.

David Bowie has always been my vocal inspiration ever since I was a child.

If David Bowie wants, I'll put him in my phone book.

There are a handful of music docs I'd love to do, including David Bowie.

The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork.

I could really sink my teeth into a David Bowie documentary.

It made the most sense for us to select Sam Bowie. It was almost a no-brainer.

I make an all right Bowie. Actually, I look more like Cilla Black with that wig.

Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met.

David Bowie used to cover loads of people, and there was an element of "David Bowie did it, so we wanted to do it," because we're kind of obsessed [with him].

David Bowie is my biggest inspiration. Pretty much the only thing that stayed the same with Bowie was his eyes. Everything else constantly changed, from his sexuality to his songs.

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.

I know every Bowie song backward.

David Bowie's death came out of the blue, as did Prince's.

When you talk about a man like David Bowie, you have to go in there with dignity.

My family knew I was gay when I was 15, long before I got famous. But it's a very different thing coming out to your family and coming out to the universe. That's a big step. Maybe without me, there wouldn't be Adam Lambert. Without Bowie, there wouldn't be me. Without Quentin Crisp, there wouldn't have been Bowie. So everything is part of a big daisy chain.

I guess my style is a cross between David Bowie and Clint Eastwood.

I think the best artists are the ones who constantly change - Madonna, Bowie.

Don't trust anyone that doesn't like any Bowie songs.

Bowie's been a huge influence on me.

Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist.

I was in L.A. with my wife in a restaurant, and I spotted my great hero David Bowie at another table. Of course I wasn't going to bother him. Then I felt a tap on my shoulder, and it was Bowie, and he squatted down to talk to me. David Bowie came down to my level - so gentlemanly.

The first thing that got to me was seeing David Bowie on a children's TV show, but Bowie was way beyond my aspirations. The Buzzcocks' Spiral Scratch came out in 1977 and it had a breakdown of the recording costs, then you saw Pete Shelley playing a broken guitar from Woolworths. We already had an idea of the kind of music we wanted to do, but punk showed us a way to do it.

Being in love, as both Plato and David Bowie have pointed out, is horrible.

I went to glam shows and was inspired by Bowie.

David Bowie was awesome the easiest, coolest interview I have ever done.