David Bowie Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.

  David Bowie

  Song, Mean, Interesting

  "5 Lessons for Creatives From David Bowie’s Remarkably Imaginative and Prolific Journey" by Chester Goad, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2016.

• Hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand and glue.

  David Bowie

  Song, Men, Voice

  Song: Song For Bob Dylan, Album: Hunky Dory, 1971

• However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.

  David Bowie

  Running, Song, Strong

  "Rock's Heathen Speaks". Livewire Interveiw, www.concertlivewire.com. June 16, 2002.

• I am a moderately good singer. I am not a great singer but I can interpret a song, which I don't think is quite the same as singing it.

  David Bowie

  Song, Thinking, Singing

  Interview with Joe Smith, blankonblank.org. June 3, 1987.

• Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.

  David Bowie

  Song, Writing, Reality

  "Rock's Heathen Speaks". www.concertlivewire.com. June 16, 2002.

• 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.

  David Bowie

  Song, Stars, Distance

  Source: www.npr.org

• I think it's rather a waste of time endlessly singing the same songs every night for a year, and it's just not what I want to do.

  David Bowie

  Song, Night, Thinking

  "David Bowie On The Ziggy Stardust Years: 'We Were Creating The 21st Century In 1971'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. 2002.

• I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

  David Bowie

  Song, Expression, Wish

  "David Bowie on Ziggy Stardust, white funk and other theatrical matters - a classic interview". Interview with Charles Shaar Murray, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2012.

• What I like doing is writing and recording and much more on the, I guess, the - on that creative level. It's fun interpreting songs and all that, but I wouldn't like it as a living.

  David Bowie

  Song, Fun, Writing

  "David Bowie On The Ziggy Stardust Years: We Were Creating The 21st Century In 1971". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 11, 2016.

• I never really got the book together for the thing, so I had all the songs and the characters. But by the time we'd gotten it on the road and I'd been doing it for 18 months, oh God, I couldn't wait to move on to something else.

  David Bowie

  Song, Moving, Book

  "David Bowie On The Ziggy Stardust Years: We Were Creating The 21st Century In 1971". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 11, 2016.

• Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.

  David Bowie

  Song, Art, Writing

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.34, Melville House

• Having not really written any generational songs - I think maybe two or three of the songs that I've ever written have any bearing on the age of the listener. My stuff tends to be far more concerned with the spiritual and with subjects like isolation and being miserable.

  David Bowie

  Spiritual, Song, Thinking

  "David Bowie On The Ziggy Stardust Years: We Were Creating The 21st Century In 1971". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 11, 2016.

• A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle. The rock stars have assimilated all kinds of philosophies, styles, histories, writings, and they throw out what they have gleaned from that.

  David Bowie

  Song, Stars, Philosophy

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.35, Melville House

• I think a lot of that album ["Tonight" ] is still very good . . . the songs, but I think I was indifferent to the arrangements.

  David Bowie

  Song, Thinking, Albums

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• I think the first song I ever wrote ... was called "Can't Help Thinking About Me." That's an illuminating little piece, isn't it?

  David Bowie

  Song, Thinking, Pieces

• I went mainstream in a major way with the song "Let's Dance." And what I found I had done was put a box around myself. It was very hard for people to see me as anything other than the person in the suit who did "Let's Dance," and it was driving me mad - because it took all my passion for experimenting away.

  David Bowie

  Song, Passion, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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