Bowie Quotes

• David Bowie was awesome the easiest, coolest interview I have ever done.

  Rachel Perry

  Done, Interviews

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• What about David Bowie? He's a sexy creature.

  John Galliano

  Sexy, Creatures

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• Be strong and follow your own convictions. You can't assume there is a lot of time to do what you like. This is what David Bowie is afraid of: that he will die before he gets a chance to make a real strong contribution.

  Marc Bolan

  Strong, Real, Chance

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• When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.

  Lars von Trier

  Important, Example, Myth

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• I guess my style is a cross between David Bowie and Clint Eastwood.

  Dylan McDermott

  Style, Crosses

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• As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of course. Class stuff. David Cousins was my favorite lyricist.

  Rick Wakeman

  Cousin, Class, Stuff

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• The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young to U2.

  Kelly Jones

  Artist, Done, Young

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• I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

  James Russell Lowell

  Knives, Mind, Democracy

  James Russell Lowell (1904). “Letters, ed. by C. E. Norton”

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• I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Country, Fans, Bigs

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• David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.

  Lance Loud

  Gay, Boys, Expression

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• Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He's very quick.

  Brian Eno

  Inspire, Collaboration, Different

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• How I love David Bowie.

  Lady Gaga

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• If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

  Ice T

  Believe, Killers, Cop

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• Some people say Bowie is all surface style and second-hand ideas, but that sounds like a definition of pop to me.

  Brian Eno

  Hands, Ideas, People

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• I'm not David Bowie. Who are we kidding? At the end of the day, I'm the same person I've always been. I'm Don Garvey's son from up the road.

  Guy Garvey

  Son, The End Of The Day, Ends

  Source: www.spin.com

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• 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."

  David Bowie

  Men, Elephants, Musical

  Source: www.npr.org

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• David Bowie's music is a moving target. Just when you think you got the bullseye, it shifts. And to his credit, on to death, it's still shifting. David Bowie is a moving target, even after he's gone.

  Carlos Alomar

  Moving, Thinking, Target

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I need to do a concert to celebrate David Bowie's electronic music. And in so doing, I'm not taking a step back, I'm taking a step forward and presenting it in its entirety so people can understand this type of visionary.

  Carlos Alomar

  People, Needs, Visionaries

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I once went through the dustbin outside David Bowie's house.

  Matthew Bourne

  House, Dustbin, Bourne

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2009.

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• If I can get that DAM trio back together again - "get the band back together" - and put on a concert of David Bowie's electronic music, that's the way I want to remember David, moving forward into the future of music.

  Carlos Alomar

  Moving, Together Again, Dams

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• [David] Bowie's last album "Blackstar" featured him backed by a jazz quartet.

  David Bowie

  Albums, Lasts, Jazz

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I would probably say David Bowie and Prince are the perfect people. They dress feminine/masculine and they're really sexy. Not many people can wear high heels and look sexier than a woman!

  Aino Jawo

  Sexy, High Heels, People

  "Interview: Icona Pop's Aino Jawo On Their New Album, 'this Is... Icona Pop'". Coup De Main Interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. November 25, 2013.

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• I went down to London with the idea that I was going to do vocals over this crazy, crazy trip-hop digital beat. Within two or three months, I heard Hunky Dory by David Bowie and that changed me in one way, and I realized what I actually wanted was to have an E Street Band - individuals, not session musicians.

  KT Tunstall

  Crazy, Ideas, Two

  "The Eyes Have It". Barnes & Noble Interview with David Sprague, web.archive.org. February 2006.

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• Bowie and McCartney arrived, and the biscuits and caviare started and I left immediately. I don't like shouting across rooms, with people in shiny suits who look like used-car salesmen.

  Billy Childish

  People, Car, Looks

  "The importance of being Childish" by Tim Teeman, The Times, December 2, 2006.

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• When I was around Bowie, I was nearing the bottom. When we were touring together, I looked at him as a kind of big-brother figure and I also looked at him as somebody I had a lot of respect for. The age and the period he's at in his life, I'd like to be there some day. He has a kind of content peace about him that's something to shoot for.

  Trent Reznor

  Brother, Age, Together

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