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A lot of people provide me with quotes. They suggest all kinds of things to say and I do, really, because I'm not very hip at all. David BowieNEW!
I surrounded myself with people who indulged my ego. They treated me as though I was Ziggy Stardust or one of my characters, never realising that David Jones might be behind it. David BowieDavid Bowie
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I've learned to relax and be my present age and my present position. I feel comfortable on my mid-thirties. It doesn't seem such an alien place to be. David BowieNEW!
I don't think I did anything that my contemporaries didn't; it was just that I was the only one who talked about it. In the Sixties anyone who had a sense of style seemed to be gay. I wanted to indentify with that. David Bowie, 1993NEW!
I think music should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself. It should be the clown, the Pierrot medium. David BowieNEW!
I'm closer to communism than fascism - at least has some saving graces. Besides, I'm half-Jewish. David BowieI hate albums that are really happy. When I am really happy, I don't like to hear happy albums, and when I am really sad I don't wanna hear happy albums... and I tend to gravitate towards the lonely and isolated anyway when I write.
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I was always accused of being cold and unfeeling. It was because I was intimidated about touching people. David BowieNEW!
When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all the artforms are the same in the end. David BowieNEW!
I really believe that Bob Dylan and others have speeded up the changes. Pacifism has found a voice at last. David Bowie, 1969The Internet is merely a new means of communication, that's all it is. It serves the purpose of getting information, which it is fantastic at. I mean, I live by the Internet in terms of research and it's incredible - there's nothing that you can't find out about. It's not stopped me going to bookshops but I must say that I don't go into as many because any book I want...
David BowieIt's a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there's a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that's how some of us conduct our lives.
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You can't go on stage and live - it's false all the way. I can't stand the premise of going out in jeans and a guitar and looking as real as you can in front of 18,000 people. I mean, it's not normal! David BowieNEW!
I'm still younger than Jagger... Most people are. David Bowie about Mick JaggerNEW!
He introduced me to a lot of extraordinary things - Artaud, Theathre Of The Absurd, all that kind of thing. A lot of my attitude toward the stage, and staging, really came from Lindsay. He was my mentor. David Bowie about Lindsay KempNEW!
It was fascinating. He has absolutely nothing to say at all, absolutely nothing. And he has this white, pudding face. He looks slightly out of this world, really inhuman. David Bowie about Andy WarholI made a more mature approach to industrial music.
David Bowie about his version of Nine Inch Nails' song HurtWhen I was around Bowie, I was nearing the bottom. When we were touring together, I looked at him as a kind of big-brother figure and I also looked at him as somebody I had a lot of respect for. The age and the period he's at in his life, I'd like to be there some day. He has a kind of content peace about him that's something to shoot for.
Trent ReznorNEW!
Some people say Bowie is all surface style and second-hand ideas, but that sounds like a definition of pop to me. Brian EnoNEW!
David Bowie really played with ideas, and iconography and imagery. He's brilliant man. And a gentleman, too. MadonnaNEW!
It was a great period because you could go to school with a green streak in your hair and say, Fuck you, I look like David Bowie. Reeves Gabrels about Ziggy Stardust periodAfter people like Lennon and Dylan, I think David Bowie brought a very modernistic intelligence and the necessity for change. I think he was completely positive, certainly through one and a half decades of completely overriding influence, in the best of popular music, and I take my bloody hat off to him!
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I've been following him since Space Oddity. And I've followed him from all those albums that didn't sell, like The Man Who Sold The World and things like that. Above all, apart from all the glamorous rubbish, the music's there. Ziggy Stardust is a classic album. Elton John about David BowieNEW!
I thought he looked coolest around Station To Station, but it wasn't so much the clothes - it was his hair, his face, just the elegance of it. Iggy PopThe first time I saw David Bowie performing was on The Old Grey Whistle Test, on TV. Everything changed, and that was basically the end of normality for me. I was obsessive about Bowie. I saw my first Ziggy Stardust concert when I was 13 at the Lewisham Odeon - Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars - and followed him to every concert hall and radio gig. Saturdays and Sundays, and sometimes after school, I'd go to Beckenham on the bus and just stand outside his house and hang out with all the other fans. We'd talk about him nonstop, about his latest records, latest outfits, his boots, his hair. One day we were being quite noisy outside his home, and his wife, Angie, opened the window and shouted: 'Will you all fuck off!' It was the highlight of our year; we were all quite chuffed to be acknowledged.
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He knows everything. He's so well read it's ridiculous. You just sit there and you feel quite a worm in comparison. Brett Anderson (Suede) about David BowieNEW!
There was one time when I saw him being made up for a Russel Harty show, and I remember looking at his reflection in the mirror and thinking, "This is the most beautiful man I've ever seen". I don't remember him being camp at any time but he was beautiful. It comes from the bone structure I think. It was beauty as opposed to handsomeness. Ken Scott, producerI mean it's no secret, you know, my feelings about David artistically. I consider him the Picasso of music and I really mean that sincerely.
Nile Rodgers, producerNEW!
Bowie has an unusual face. He's neither a man nor a woman. There's this aura of fantasy that surrounds him. He has flair. Kansai Yamamoto, fashion designerNEW!
He had this T-shirt on that said "Fuck You I'm In Tin Machine". I wanted to go up to him and pont to the shirt and say, Yes but does anyone really care? Vic Reeves, comedian about David BowieNEW!
I saw him do it in '73. I was so impressionable then that he could have done a Rolf Harris song and I'd have thought it was mega. Ian McCulloch (Echo And The Bunnymen) about David Bowie's song My DeathNEW!
I hadn't liked the non-eyebrow period, which basically went from Aladdin Sane to Young Americans. Then he got the eyebrows back, and his hair was fantastic in The Man Who Fell To Earth and thus rekindled my wanting to be David Bowie again. Ian McCullochNEW!
My wife says that David wears clothes better than almost any man since Fred Astaire. John Landis, film director