641 Quotes by David Bowie

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

When Brian and I came back together this time, we found that we'd gone through very similar psychological states during the course of the '80s.

Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived.

It's much easier for me to say that, the kind of music I didn't listen to was pretty much that. I mean everything, from jazz to classical to popular. And Tibetan horns were a great part of it in 1966, '67.

I cannot with any real integrity perform songs I've done for 25 years. I don't need the money. What I need is to feel that I am not letting myself down as an artist and that I still have something to contribute.

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

What is very enlightening for me right now is that I sense that I'm arriving at a place of peace with my writing that I've never experienced before.

Rather than really have, like a close relationship to anything that's coming out today, people are just, they've got it on as background music. It's kind of the same way the cabdrivers use music; it's very disposable.

I could never have done what I did without being involved with Lindsay Kemp's company.