641 Quotes by David Bowie

I'm very shy. That's probably one of the reasons I got so heavily into drugs.

People got extremely comfortable with being able to turn on their television and see MTV say, "This guy's hot you should buy this record."

Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.

I still derive immense pleasure from remembering how many hod-carrying brickies were encouraged to put on lurex tights and mince up and down the high street, having been assured by know-it-alls like me that a smidgen of blusher really attracted the birds.

Ground control to Major Tom.

I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.

I never really had much of an interest in fashion.

I think in the '70s that there was a general feeling of chaos, a feeling that the idea of the '60s as 'ideal' was a misnomer. Nothing seemed ideal anymore. Everything seemed in-between.

I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.