David Bowie People Quotations

There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.

I was always accused of being cold and unfeeling. It was because I was intimidated about touching people.

I'm still younger than Jagger... Most people are.

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.

I guess, people like myself and Roxy Music that had a different agenda about taking up music.

People are always throwing things at me that I've said and I say that I didn't mean anything.

They [people] mistake fashion for style.

I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me, because it's not their profession to do that.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

The younger people get into the lyrics in a different way; there's much more of a tactile understanding, which is the way I prefer it.

TV has eaten up everything else, and Warhol films are all that are left, which is fabulous. Pork could become the next I Love Lucy, the great American domestic comedy. It's about how people really live, not like Lucy, who never touched dishwater. It's about people living and hustling to survive.

People don't get a chance to think, "Why am I a consumer?" Because the decisions come at them so fast and furiously, they're not [even] given time to think, I am a consumer.

Rather than really have, like a close relationship to anything that's coming out today, people are just, they've got it on as background music. It's kind of the same way the cabdrivers use music; it's very disposable.

People got extremely comfortable with being able to turn on their television and see MTV say, "This guy's hot you should buy this record."

People will keep the TV on even if a show is on that they hate - because, unfortunately, they've been programmed to do that.

I would like to believe that people knew what they were fighting for and why they wanted a revolution, and exactly what it was within that they didn't like.

I don't believe in proper cinema; it doesn't have the strength of television. People having to go out to the cinema is really archaic. I'd much rather sit at home.

People look to me to see what the spirit of the Seventies is.

The world that I inhabit in reality is probably very different world than the one people expect that I would be in. It is quite sedate. It's far removed from a lot of what they would feel to be the limousine traveling rock existence, or whatever.

The people who don't know so much about me regard me more sexually.

I'm regarded quite asexually by a lot of people. And the people that understand me the best are nearer to what I understand about me.

Since early middle ages when people generally taking away the barbarity of their like, were pretty content. Although it was all an illicit contentment, what with the slave systems all over the world, in England especially, the peasants and the master, etc. People were incredibly content.

The coming together of people I find obscene as a principle. It is not human. It is not a natural thing as some people would have us believe.

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.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it's no longer his... I just see what people make of it.

My particular thing is discovering what can be done with media and how it can be used. You can't draw people together like one big huge family, people don't want that. They want isolation or a tribal thing.

I have to take total control myself. I can't let anybody else do anything, for I find that I can do things better for me. I don't want to get other people playing with what they think that I'm trying to do.

Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence.

I want people to hear musicians like Joe Cuba. He has done things to whole masses of Puerto Rican people. The music is fantastic and important.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.