Bowie Quotes

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

  Rachel Perry

  Done, Interviews

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

  Lance Loud

  Gay, Boys, Expression

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

  John Galliano

  Sexy, Creatures

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Have an objective to give your bender a theme. For instance, stalking and killing a wild pig with a bowie knife.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Pigs, Knives, Giving

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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'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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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