641 Quotes by David Bowie

I would like to believe that people knew what they were fighting for and why they wanted a revolution, and exactly what it was within that they didn’t like.

You can’t go on stage and live – it’s false all the way. I can’t stand the premise of going out in jeans and a guitar and looking as real as you can in front of 18,000 people. I mean, it’s not normal!

I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me, because it’s not their profession to do that.

In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it’s the recording or the performance side.

You know, I don’t feel fifty. I feel not a day over forty-nine. It’s incredible. I’m bouncy, I feel bouncy.

Zane zane zane, ouvre le chien.

I’m quite certain that the audience that I’ve got for my stuff don’t listen to the lyrics.

There have been times when I’ve written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I’ve taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write.

Always drawn to the theatric, Bowie also performed in stage productions of “The Elephant Man” and just recently collaborated on “Lazarus,” an off-Broadway musical that’s a sequel to his 1976 role in the film “The Man Who Fell To Earth.”