Best Bowie Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“And you, You can be mean And I, I'll drink all the time 'Cause we're lovers, And that is a fact Yes we're lovers, And that is that - "Heroes"”

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Author:David Bowie

“A tawdry realm of shifting, insecure employment and fleeting glimpses of high reward for little effort. A world where strings are pulled by complete cretins while those who work hard at the creative coalface are at the bottom of a steaming dunghill of vacuity, broken dreams, and empty promises.”

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Book:Absolute Beginner: Memoirs of the world's best least-known guitarist

Source: Absolute Beginner: Memoirs of the world's best least-known guitarist

“My brother was one of the bigger influences in my life, in as much as he told me I didn't have to read the choice of books that I as recommended at school, and that I could go out to the library and go and choose my own, and sort of introduced me to authors that I wouldn't have read.probably. You know, the usual things like the Jack Kerouacs, the Ginsbergs, the ee Cummings and stuff.”

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Author:David Bowie

“The bravest thing David Bowie ever did was to go on stage after Queen at Live Aid.”

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Author:Stewart Stafford

“It’s almost as if Bronson, Ginsberg and Bowie craved the freedom of letting go, of pushing their mind aside and allowing the vampires and demons and all the other freaks to run them so that they could slip away elsewhere”

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Book:Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

Source: Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“Love me, love me, love me, Say you do. Let me fly away with you. For my love is like the wind, And wild is the wind. - Wild is the Wind”

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Author:Ned Washington

“I have someone who loves me for me. Seriously, it REALLY helps!”

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Author:David Bowie

“Bowie's been a huge influence on me. I remember early on, my dad pulling out the 'Diamond Dogs' album, and the cover alone just grabbed my attention. I think I was probably around 12.”

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Author:Adam Lambert

“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.”

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Author:Ryan McGinley

“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.”

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Author:Jen Kirkman

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

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Author:Rachel Perry

“I am a big David Bowie fan.”

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Author:Kristen Wiig

“How I love David Bowie.”

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Author:Lady Gaga

“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.”

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Author:Ricky Gervais

“When I was about 13, 14 - 13, I would carry a magic marker with me everywhere I went so I could write the word "Bowie" on everything that wasn't mine.”

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Author:RuPaul

“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.”

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Author:Billy Childish

“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.”

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Author:Maynard James Keenan

“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.”

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Author:KT Tunstall

“I'm not someone who can sing anything... And my favorite singers aren't people whose voice you would say is amazing. I'm a big Bob Dylan fan, a huge David Bowie fan... none of those people have orthodox, cabaret voices. These are people where what they're singing about is just as important as how they're singing it.”

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Author:Boy George

“As a kid, I would've loved to get a tweet from David Bowie or Joan Rivers or Tom Cruise. It's great that you can communicate with people and it's instant.”

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Author:Boy George

“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.”

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Book:David Bowie: The Last Interview

Source: David Bowie: The Last Interview

“One of my biggest heroes and people I was fortunate enough to be around is David Bowie. I look at his career, and he always had the balls to break things that weren't broken, to step away from something and try something new, at risk of failing.”

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Author:Trent Reznor

“To women, drummers seem like these adorable, sexy Neanderthals, and lead singers seem mysterious and dangerous. So while the lead singers all want to be David Bowie, floating into parties and being the center of attention, it's the drummers who are in the corner doing keg stands and breaking tables. Usually it's the drummers who get the fun-loving ladies and the singers who get the nutcases.”

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Author:Dave Grohl

“As a teenager I was crazy about David Bowie. He was a huge inspiration for me. I dressed a little bit crazily in school and dyed my hair every colour under the sun.”

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Author:Clive Owen

“I listen to a lot of old music, like Joni Mitchell and David Bowie.”

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Author:Sophie McShera

“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.”

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Author:Johnny Marr

“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.”

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Author:Ronnie Wood

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

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Author:Miguel

“It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how hard they lived.”

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Author:Mick Rock

“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.”

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Author:Iman Abdulmajid

“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.”

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Author:Andy Biersack

“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.”

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Author:RuPaul

“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.”

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Author:RuPaul

“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.”

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Author:Bill Lee

“I once went through the dustbin outside David Bowie's house.”

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Author:Matthew Bourne

“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.”

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Author:Florence Welch

“I'm not David Bowie. Who are we kidding? At the end of the day, I'm the same person I've always been. I'm Don Garvey's son from up the road.”

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Author:Guy Garvey

“With the groups who asked me to join them - like the Rolling Stones, Spirit, David Bowie, and Blood, Sweat & Tears - I said no right away because I was way too much into my own thing.”

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Author:Shuggie Otis

“Whatever. Everyone mispronounces my name. And, like, David Bowie was big before I was born, right?”

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Author:Avril Lavigne

“For Christmas when I was about four I got given 'Can the can' by Susie Quatro, so that was the first record I got. And I got Skyhooks "Ego is not a Dirty Word.... I was sorta listening to the Beatles and stuff the whole time since I was about ten anyway, then I started getting into Kiss and David Bowie at the same time”

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Author:Bernard Fanning

“Bowie mattered to me. He reinvented himself so many times - it must have been a daring statement to do that, risking failure. And hanging out with him and seeing him like that - he's my dad's age, born in the same month - when you find someone who's been through a really dark period, which most of his music I care about is from, Low, Lodger, "Heroes" era.... But he came out of it and made something that mattered.”

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Author:Trent Reznor

“When 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.”

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Author:Trent Reznor

“Some people say Bowie is all surface style and second-hand ideas, but that sounds like a definition of pop to me.”

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Author:Brian Eno

“David Bowie really played with ideas, and iconography and imagery. He's brilliant man. And a gentleman, too.”

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Author:Madonna Ciccone

“After 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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Author:Roger Meddows Taylor

“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.”

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Author:Kansai Yamamoto

“I went to glam shows and was inspired by Bowie.”

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Author:Jay Gordon

“Some references are more important than others. Like the metal stuff. Some people like Motley Crue and some people didn't listen to them at all. So that's why there's New Order and The New Replacements and David Bowie and Public Enemy.”

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Author:Steve Pink

“Lady Gaga is proof that David Bowie raped Carol Burnett.”

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Author:Christopher Titus

“Jeff [Koons] called me because he'd seen a portrait of David Bowie, at the beginning of the 80s - I've known Jeff for a long time - and he said, Greg, I want to look like a high-profile celebrity, living on the edge. I think that says it all.”

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Author:Greg Gorman

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