Bowie Quotes - Page 2

• If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was more like the 1950s.. and that's the truth. The backdrop was probably Victorian.

  Ricky Gervais

  Reading, Towns, Small Town

  "Cemetery Junction - Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I'm not someone who can sing anything... And my favorite singers aren't people whose voice you would say is amazing. I'm a big Bob Dylan fan, a huge David Bowie fan... none of those people have orthodox, cabaret voices. These are people where what they're singing about is just as important as how they're singing it.

  Boy George

  Voice, People, Singing

  "Boy George Talks Culture Club Reunion, Lady Gaga, Adam Lambert". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 23, 2011.

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• It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how hard they lived.

  Mick Rock

  Miracle, Live For Today, Alive

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• As a kid, I would've loved to get a tweet from David Bowie or Joan Rivers or Tom Cruise. It's great that you can communicate with people and it's instant.

  Boy George

  Kids, Rivers, People

  "Boy George Talks Culture Club Reunion, Lady Gaga, Adam Lambert". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 23, 2011.

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• Bowie mattered to me. He reinvented himself so many times - it must have been a daring statement to do that, risking failure. And hanging out with him and seeing him like that - he's my dad's age, born in the same month - when you find someone who's been through a really dark period, which most of his music I care about is from, Low, Lodger, "Heroes" era.... But he came out of it and made something that mattered.

  Trent Reznor

  Dad, Hero, Dark

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• One of my biggest heroes in music has been David Bowie. He's said, `I'm going to be a painter now, or I'm going to do some films,' and his audience is very forgiving, because they understand him as an artist. Whether you agree or like the result, you respect that he's expressing his artistic feelings.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Hero, Artist, Feelings

  "Tool Leader Keenan Forms A Perfect Circle". Billboard, March 18, 2000.

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• David Bowie is the quintessential English gentleman and, of course, a musical and generational institution. I only played support for him for one night (not a whole tour) but he was incredibly gracious and generous toward me and I've certainly never forgotten it.

  Brooke Fraser

  Night, Support, Gentleman

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Bowie's obviously my biggest influence.

  Scott Weiland

  Influence

  "Scott Weiland's New Solo Lp Is A 'Hodgepodge' Inspired By Marital Woes And Brother's Death" by Chris Harris, www.mtv.com. November 10, 2008.

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• If anybody won life, David Bowie did, at least as a creative entity in the sense of writing yourself into existence and writing yourself out in such a graceful swoop.

  Babatunde Adebimpe

  Writing, Creative, Entity

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I saw Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, which I thought was a masterpiece. Not that long ago, I listened to Blackstar by David Bowie and thought that was a masterpiece. Those are two incredibly talented people who've left their mark with us.

  Kate Bush

  Long Ago, Two, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I am impressed by the way Annie Kevans captured the different types of beauties that have been my inspiration and my muses from my grandmother to artists like David Bowie and Boy George.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Inspiration, Grandmother, Artist

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• I've spent three hours with Snoop Dogg, talking about how he loved [Peaky Blinders series]. And David Bowie loved it. The late Leonard Cohen was a fan. It struck a chord with various people that I didn't think it would.

  Steven Knight

  Thinking, Talking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• So asking you to take a moonlit walk with me, that would totally not work?" "What?" Again that glare. "Go away. Stop being an idiot. I don't even know you." "You're healing my little brother Bowie." "Yeah, that doesn't make us friends, kid." "So no moonlight." "Are you retarded?" "Sunrise? I could get up early." "Go away." "Sunset tomorrow?" -Sanjit & Lana

  Michael Grant

  Brother, Healing, Sunset

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• I always knew there were vampires, dude,” he’d said. “Because, you know how there’s people you know who, like, always look the same, even when they’re, like, a hundred years old? Like David Bowie? That’s because they’re vampires.

  Cassandra Clare

  Years, People, Vampire

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1327, Simon and Schuster

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• Bethann Hardison has been my collaborator, my closest friend, we've gone through starting businesses, losing businesses, kids, divorces, marriages, and she was my maid of honor when I married my husband, David Bowie. And she's still such a part of my life. This is the person when it's totally dark, outside and inside, this is the person I would call.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Husband, Kids, Divorce

  Source: time.com

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• Just as Bowie, Zeppelin, etc., became rock stars by remaking themselves in the image of the California girls, the Go-Gos became rock stars by pretending to be the Buzzcocks and the Sex Pistols. Jane Wiedlin always said her biggest influence was growing up in L.A. as a Bowie girl.

  Rob Sheffield

  Girl, Sex, Stars

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• I think the first experience scared the hell out of me. Within months of my initial marriage [on Angela Bowie], I realized I had done a really naive and rather stupid thing. . . . I don't think either of us had any real resolve about being together. The result was it made me wary of relationships.

  David Bowie

  Real, Stupid, Thinking

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

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• David Bowie is kind of the pioneer of glam rock. Not just for music, but just his overall, how he incorporates fashion and other arts into music. And he does a really amazing job about being fearless and that kind of stuff.

  BØRNS

  Fashion, Art, Jobs

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• The ways in which Oscar Wilde was attacking the Romantics that preceded him, and the Romantic ideas that preceded him, were very similar to what the glam-rockers, particularly Bowie and Bryan Ferry, were attacking in the earnestness of '60s culture. Trying to shock, but with wit, cleverness, and homosexuality.

  Todd Haynes

  Ideas, Trying, Culture

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Working with David Bowie was very interesting, but I couldn't surrender to it. I should have let him produce a record for me, but I'm very perverse in some ways. He's brilliant, but the entourage were rather daunting.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Should Have, Interesting, Way

  "Marianne Faithfull: 'I don't think I had any choice but to be decadent'". Interview with Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. January 10, 2013.

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• Hearing that [David] Bowie passed was like you don't really believe it. It's as if the sky shifted a little bit, to remind you it was there.

  Babatunde Adebimpe

  Believe, Sky, Littles

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I knew about things like Iggy Pop and The Velvet Underground, weirdly, before I knew about David Bowie. I didn't know what David Bowie was, when I was a kid. I thought he was like Visage.

  Stewart Lee

  Kids, Velvet, Pops

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Prince didn't want to sound like Michael Jackson. Neither of them wanted to sound like Luther Vandross. They didn't want to sound like David Bowie. They were all different, but brilliant.

  Warryn Campbell

  Sound, Different, Want

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• I'm very curious about David Bowie's new record [2016]. I'm very, very... I'm just incredibly curious, I want to see what's happening with that. I don't really know who else is putting out records, we've had our heads buried working on ours. I haven't really been paying much attention lately.

  Patrick Stump

  Attention, Records, Want

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• You can not ignore his current life. Bowie has become a family man and enjoys to see his children grow up close to him. But after six years he feels the urge to get in the studio with musicans he likes. He closely follows bands like Arcade Fire in recent months. But he is inspired by ancient Chinese folk and jazz these days as well.

  Gail Ann Dorsey

  Children, Growing Up, Men

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