Bowie Quotes - Page 4

• I'm definitely not a laptop/midi/abelton guy. But there is a lot of music I like. I really like Bach organ music. I really like Chopin piano music. I really like Wendy Carlo's electronic music. I really like Miles Davis and John Mclaughlin jazz style. So I'm not only an old-school rocker, but I have to admit that I'm going to be listening to The Doors, Rolling Stones, Iggy Pop, David Bowie and Bob Dylan many times a week.

  Gordon Raphael

  Old School, Piano, Doors

  Source: www.indieberlin.de

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• I'm from the same planet as David Bowie.

  Tilda Swinton

  Planets

  "The Oddly Comforting Daily Life of Tilda Swinton". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. April 11, 2014.

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• Bowie's a real man, and I'm a real woman - just like Catherine Deneuve.

  Iggy Pop

  Real, Men, Real Men

  "Iggy's Trail of Destruction". Rolling Stone Interview, November 19, 2003.

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• My family knew I was gay when I was 15, long before I got famous. But it's a very different thing coming out to your family and coming out to the universe. That's a big step. Maybe without me, there wouldn't be Adam Lambert. Without Bowie, there wouldn't be me. Without Quentin Crisp, there wouldn't have been Bowie. So everything is part of a big daisy chain.

  Boy George

  Gay, Long, Different

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

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• This is a mad planet," David Bowie said in 1971. "It's doomed to madness.

  David Bowie

  Mad, Said, Planets

  "New again: David Bowie". Interview with Patrick Salvo, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Being in love, as both Plato and David Bowie have pointed out, is horrible.

  Stefano Benni

  Plato, Being In Love, Horrible

  Stefano Benni, Antony Shugaar (2006). “Margherita Dolce Vita”, Europa Editions Incorporated

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• I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic suits from shops like Take 6 and Topman. I was a bit of a soul boy, but I had a very eclectic taste in music - I was into James Brown and Bowie; and I was the only kid in the neighbourhood who would also be listening to Chopin.

  Gary Oldman

  Kids, Boys, Soul

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• Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist.

  Moby

  Popular Music, Knows

  "David Bowie: Back in the spotlight, still refusing to play along" by Andrew Harrison, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2016.

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• David Bowie is such a big influence to me. Everything about him as a person is intriguing to me.

  Leona Lewis

  Influence, Intriguing, Bigs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The title song of David Bowie's 'Young Americans' is one of his handful of classics, a bizarre mixture of social comment, run-on lyric style, English pop and American soul.

  Jon Landau

  Running, Song, Soul

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• The problem is that the internet IS some kid in a basement with an opinion. The fact that David Bowie and Elton John told me that they were fans of Helmet - or Neil Young - that means something to me because I grew up on their music and they’re great musicians... That means more to me than some guy who hates the fact that my hair is short.

  Page Hamilton

  Hate, Mean, Kids

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• I'd like to go for people I admire - I always gravitate towards the people I idolized when I was a teenager: Cher, Diana Ross, and David Bowie.

  RuPaul

  Teenager, People, Diana

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• I love David Bowie and Cher and Diana Ross. I wanted to follow in their footsteps. So I set out to do that in a rock-'n'-roll band in Atlanta, Georgia. That led me to nightclubs and to the sort of Andy Warhol experience of creating a personality.

  RuPaul

  Creating, Rocks, Atlanta

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Davy Jones was the grooviest of the Monkees, which makes him one of the grooviest pop stars who ever existed. He was the best dancer in the Monkees, the Cute One, the one with the coy English accent, the bowl-cut boy-child who shook those cherry-red maracas and always got the girl. He was also the guy who stole David Bowie's original name.

  Rob Sheffield

  Cute, Girl, Stars

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• The name Bowie just appealed to me when I was younger. I was into a kind of heavy philosophy thing when I was 16 years old, and I wanted a truism about cutting through the lies and all that.

  David Bowie

  Philosophy, Lying, Cutting

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.49, Melville House

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• When you're dressed up as David Bowie, with your eyebrows completely bleached, and you're doing this kind of strange dance with Paul McCartney while singing "Rebel Rebel" in the middle of the Met ball, and Madonna's looking at you . . . I was just thinking, It's become a bit weird.

  Florence Welch

  Thinking, Eyebrows, Singing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I told [reporters] that I sprinkled marijuana on my organic buckwheat pancakes, and then when I ran my five miles to the ballpark, it made me impervious to the bus fumes. That's when [Baseball Commissioner] Bowie Kuhn took me off his Christmas list.

  Bill Lee

  Baseball, Marijuana, Pancakes

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• People say to me, 'Do you dye your hair?' and I say, 'Well, does f**king Siouxsie Sioux? Does Bowie?'. Of course I'm going to have a decent haircut. It's one of the first things I learnt to do - get a few songs together and get your hairstyle right.

  Johnny Marr

  Song, Kings, Hair

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• I don't think we ever sat down in the early days and said "hey lets be a band that wears make up". I think it was just natural for us. We grew up loving stuff like Alice Cooper, Kiss, The Misfits, and the more theatrical stuff. I always loved rock stars. I loved David Bowie and Freddie Mercury, and these people that were larger than life and iconic. I think that is what we always wanted to do.

  Andy Biersack

  Stars, Kissing, Thinking

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• If I say something about David [Bowie], I get 1000 tweets, if I say something about my business just a few! The more personal, the better.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Tweet, Ifs

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• The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork.

  Miguel

  Extremes, Knows

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• I think people are just creative, and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan and David Bowie create both music and art.

  Ronnie Wood

  Art, Thinking, Numbers

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• My joke is a picture of David Bowie on his balcony in the '70s in a suit in Paris, and unless that's you, I'm not interested. There are very few aesthetic types that I have, and people who look like that are not always necessarily good for me.

  Jen Kirkman

  Paris, People, Looks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I went through a pretty big David Bowie period when I was younger, and that has affected me profoundly in my life and my work.

  Ryan McGinley

  Bigs, Periods, Affected

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• As suburbs go, Bromley's not bad. But as David Bowie and Hanif Kureishi have observed, you do want to get out of there quickly.

  Tibor Fischer

  Want, Suburbs

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