Bowie Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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'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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• [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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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