David Bowie Quotes About Style

Quotes about: Style

• Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.

  David Bowie

  Civilization, Choices, Style

  "David Bowie & Mos Def: The Style Council". Interview with Ben White, www.complex.com. August, 2003.

• When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all the artforms are the same in the end.

  David Bowie

  Artist, Hands, Style

• They [people] mistake fashion for style.

  David Bowie

  Fashion, Mistake, People

  "Interview with Joe Smith". Interview with Ben White, www.complex.com. January 12, 2016.

• Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold. I will buy a chair for my house. What style of chair are you gonna buy? Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived. I mean, why bother choosing a chair because it looks a certain way? Because there's gonna be something about that chair that says something about you.

  David Bowie

  Mean, Civilization, Choices

  "David Bowie & Mos Def: The Style Council". Interview with Ben White, www.complex.com. August, 2003.

• 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

• On "Tonight" I think I was torn dreadfully between writing what I wanted to write, but keeping it in a style that would follow up what I had just done. That's where I feel I was untrue to myself as an artist . . . that album and, to a lesser extent, "Never Let Me Down."

  David Bowie

  Writing, Thinking, Artist

  "POP MUSIC : David Bowie: The Man Who Fell . . . Then Got Up Again". Interview with Robert Hilburn, articles.latimes.com. April 4, 1993.

• I don't think I did anything that my contemporaries didn't; it was just that I was the only one who talked about it. In the Sixties anyone who had a sense of style seemed to be gay. I wanted to indentify with that.

  David Bowie

  Gay, Thinking, Style

• 1961 was when I was really into clothes. I left school at 15 and started copying a bloke who used to go up on the train to London with me; Leslie, I think his name was. He was like, top mod of his own area. He wore Italian jackets with white linen jeans. Boy, was that cool! I mean, that's in style now - it's very much the L.A. look. But he was wearing it then, and it looked supercool.

  David Bowie

  School, Mean, Italian

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Ironically, style doesn't come even closely related to fashion. It's got nothing to do [with clothes].

  David Bowie

  Fashion, Clothes, Style

  "David Bowie & Mos Def: The Style Council". COMPLEX Interview, www.complex.com. August/September 2003.

• There's something about the style of living in the country that they feel, "This is what represents me." So style is about the philosophy of how we create our civilization.

  David Bowie

  Country, Philosophy, Civilization

  "David Bowie & Mos Def: The Style Council". Interview with Ben White, www.complex.com. August, 2003.

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