Bowie Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie.

  Trent Reznor

  Careers, People, Mentor

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• David Bowie told me my music sounds like tomorrow

  Lorde

  Sound, Tomorrow

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• David Bowie, for me, was the butchest guy in town. Jagger was like a truck driver.

  Hedi Slimane

  Guy, Towns, Truck

  "Hedi Slimane: 'Maybe I have to start designing again'". Interview with Johnny Davis, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2011.

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• Everyone wants to pretend like they sprang out of the ground with an Animal Collective record in their hands and a David Bowie haircut, and that's just not the case. You discover these things gradually.

  Patrick Stump

  Animal, Hands, Records

  "Fall Out Boy On ‘Save Rock And Roll,’ Working With Elton John And Why Everything Is Different This Time Around" by Kia Makarechi, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 15, 2013.

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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'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'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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• It depends who they are. If it's Mick (Jagger) or the Old Guard as I call them, yeah, they're the Old Guard. Elton (John), David (Bowie) are the newies. I don't feel like an old uncle, dear, 'cause I'm not that much older than half of 'em, hehe.

  John Lennon

  Uncles, Causes, Ems

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• I gotta friend who spends his life, stabbing my picture with a bowie knife. Dreams of strangling me with a scarf, when my name comes up he pretends to barf.

  Bob Dylan

  Friendship, Dream, Knives

  Song: I Shall Be Free--No. 10

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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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• I've been a big believer in musicians turned actor, going back to Sinatra winning the Oscar for 'From Here To Eternity.' David Bowie in 'Man Who Fell to Earth,' Kris Kristofferson's been great in a bunch of films. Liza Minnelli, Barbra Streisand, Mariah Carey, I thought was great in 'Precious.

  Peter Berg

  Winning, Men, Musician

  "Why Did You Cast A Massive Music Superstar In What Amounts To A Run-And-Gun Supporting Role?" by Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. May 17, 2012.

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• When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Charles Lindbergh, my pantheon of favorite heroes. Then I would write my own things and sew them together and try to make my own book.

  Douglas Brinkley

  Book, Hero, Writing

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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