Top 267 Bowie Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
I love many of the rock and rollers next up on altar of actuarial sacrifice more than I ever loved David Bowie.
A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.
I went through a pretty big David Bowie period when I was younger, and that has affected me profoundly in my life and my work.
Eight months after graduating from Ryerson, there I was in West Berlin working with Marlene Dietrich and David Bowie and Kim Novak.
Bowie has an unusual face. He's neither a man nor a woman. There's this aura of fantasy that surrounds him. He has flair.
[David] Bowie's last album "Blackstar" featured him backed by a jazz quartet.
I moved to London to work at the National Theatre and spent my first wage packet on Patti Smith, Bowie and Velvets records.
I grew up as a kid looking at artists like David Bowie and Prince; I really admired them.
David Bowie is such a big influence to me. Everything about him as a person is intriguing to me.
As I always said: I fell in with David Jones. I did not fall in love with David Bowie.
I was always just blown away by David Bowie and how mannered the guy was willing to be. It was so far from what I imagined someone with my confidence to be capable of.
I have two sons, and at 16, they were into Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, and a lot of British rock.
I was exposed to many kinds of music including rock and disco, classical and folk, Midtown and Miles Davis, Sly Stone and David Bowie.
It takes a long time to find your own voice. Along the way, you imitate all the things that influence you - in my case Johnny Cash, Bowie, John Lydon.
If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.
The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young to U2.
Music, for me, is as important as fashion. The first visuals I remember are Elvis Presley, David Bowie, New Romantics, and different punk bands.
Bowie's a real man, and I'm a real woman - just like Catherine Deneuve.
Bowie's 'Hunky Dory' influenced me. 'Ziggy Stardust' influenced Johnny Ramone a lot, especially his guitar parts.
In my creative life, David Bowie is definitely an enormous influence on me, being one of rock's greatest shapeshifters.
As a kid, I would've loved to get a tweet from David Bowie or Joan Rivers or Tom Cruise. It's great that you can communicate with people and it's instant.
When I was growing up, David Bowie was my idol. I grew up in inner-city London, and he was from Brixton, which is even more urban.
I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
I seriously feel like Bowie was an astronaut who went into space and experienced things and brought back these... treasures.
Whatever. Everyone mispronounces my name. And, like, David Bowie was big before I was born, right?
My mum and dad are massive Bowie fans, so I grew up listening to his music.
I think people are 'just creative,' and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan and David Bowie create both music and art.
David Bowie's my favorite musician. I love him above all, but I'm really into rap a lot right now.
I've had a nice career. I'm no David Bowie or Bruce Springsteen out there. I'm not an icon. I'm just a working artist.
I love people like Kate Bush and Stevie Nicks and David Bowie - people that project themselves as characters and that contextualizes the music.
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I'm not David Bowie. Who are we kidding? At the end of the day, I'm the same person I've always been. I'm Don Garvey's son from up the road.
Bowie is probably my favorite all-around songwriter and performer and personality. His ability to change over the years is such an inspiration. I love 'Young Americans' and 'Fame.'
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.
As suburbs go, Bromley's not bad. But as David Bowie and Hanif Kureishi have observed, you do want to get out of there quickly.
From a musical standpoint, I was inspired by '90s hip hop, with a lot of drums and the tempos. I'm always inspired by David Bowie and Prince.
I think people are just creative, and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan and David Bowie create both music and art.
I didn't even know about guys wearing makeup, like David Bowie and Boy George. When I was really young, I wasn't into that - I was into Britney Spears.
I was doing some research and stuff and reading about Bowie. When he referred to his music as 'plastic soul,' I was like, 'That is the coolest thing I've ever heard.'
It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how hard they lived.
Bowie has been in my mind as someone who disappeared from the public for a long time and then emerged. A strange, exotic creature - he seems to inherit a tradition of enigma and exclusiveness.
I'd like to go for people I admire - I always gravitate towards the people I idolized when I was a teenager: Cher, Diana Ross, and David Bowie.
As a teenager I was crazy about David Bowie. He was a huge inspiration for me. I dressed a little bit crazily in school and dyed my hair every colour under the sun.
David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
David Bowie really played with ideas, and iconography and imagery. He's brilliant man. And a gentleman, too.
They say don't meet your heroes, but when it comes to Bowie, he truly is the most brilliant person I've ever met.
When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.
I do not use the word 'genius' lightly, but if David Bowie is not a genius, then there is no such thing.
Before I met David Bowie, I was very nervous. I thought, 'Here comes the Thin White Duke, Ziggy Stardust. How will I ever communicate with him?'
Hearing that [David] Bowie passed was like you don't really believe it. It's as if the sky shifted a little bit, to remind you it was there.
I gotta friend who spends his life, stabbing my picture with a bowie knife. Dreams of strangling me with a scarf, when my name comes up he pretends to barf.
I'm a big Otis Redding fan, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. My hero is David Bowie. But I like the Beatles, the Stones.
I'm someone who admires artists like Madonna and David Bowie, who really change their sound drastically between each record.
Some people say Bowie is all surface style and second-hand ideas, but that sounds like a definition of pop to me.
One day, I hope that I can come to Sandhill, and there's a huge sign that says, 'Welcome to Sandhill, Home to Tori Bowie.'
Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
My style icon has always been David Bowie. Just because of the variety of images and looks he created.
My history of singing has always probably been closer to a David Bowie approach than, for example, an AC/DC approach.
I was brought up on Black Sabbath, David Bowie, 50 Cent, and Guru. And it all comes out in my own music somewhere.
Like David Bowie, Madonna visualizes music so that her best work seems equally designed with the stage or screen in mind - not just the jukebox.
