Bowie Quotations

I was obsessed with David Bowie - still am. He's a babe, a total babe. His music is killer; his visuals are beautiful.

The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young to U2.

When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.

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

I actually had the pleasure of meeting David Bowie at his 50th birthday party in New York City. I handed him the cassette of 'Eight Arms to Hold You,' which I had just got an advance of that day. He very graciously thanked me and tucked it into his jacket pocket.

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.

After touring with David Bowie last year, I was inspired to look at what I wanted to do as an artist, and I realized I wanted to go back to the music I fell in love with when I was eight years old.

I guess my style is a cross between David Bowie and Clint Eastwood.

I was a huge Bowie fan since I was 12 years old. That was the first 'punk' rock I got into in the Seventies. I didn't find out about a lot of the other stuff that was going on, like New York Dolls and Roxy Music, until a lot later.

I grew up as a kid looking at artists like David Bowie and Prince; I really admired them.

In 1979, I moved to England and photographed Joy Division and Bowie and Beefheart. At that time I got images that I felt had that special, well - power is a big word to say - more like intimacy and ambition that outlasted the photo shoot. I felt that they would have a longer life.

I would love to be looked at some day - and I'm not ever saying I'm at this level - but I'd love to be mentioned in the same breath as a Bowie or an Eno. Those are the people that I admire artistically, their career trajectory, the integrity throughout their career, the bravery of their career.

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

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

David Bowie worked with Brian Eno and dressed up in extraordinary clothes, but he was also a brilliant songwriter who captured the thoughts of a generation. He was hugely successful, without compromise.

I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.

It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll. I've listened to 'Ziggy Stardust' as much as any rock n' roll fan - I don't really know what it's about, but it sure is fun to think about David Bowie as this mad creation.

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

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

One thing that has really influenced me with Bowie where I've taken an approach from him is how he changes from album to album and has always modified his sound and his appearance. I think that's an important thing.

We have to protect ourselves and the people of Los Angeles. We can't have anybody jump in there with a Bowie knife. It's nothing against T-Bone. I want him to feel part of the world again, and we appreciate his offer.

Well, I've never had any sort of macho revulsion of fags, but Bowie and I - never, never, never, never.

Bowie's been a huge influence on me.

[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz.

Bowie is probably my favorite all-around songwriter and performer and personality. His ability to change over the years is such an inspiration. I love 'Young Americans' and 'Fame.'

Beastie Boys and David Bowie are two of my favorite artists.

Commerce and Bowie Street. They have a good sandwich in there. The Texas Stacker. It comes with fries. But yeah, I'm a little tired of it.

They all seem to be doing OK. Seventh-graders are seventh-graders and don't know to put their pants on right, but we're taking care of that. It's a challenge for all of us to travel to Bowie only so far as we can't just walk out the back door and start working.

As far as the facility, they have more grass at Bowie because we're land-locked over here. There's more room in the two portables over there.

They're both top 10 teams. Bowie and Duncanville can beat each other on any given night. That district is probably the best one in (Class) 5A.

David Bowie is playing Nikola Tesla, who invented alternating current and I am playing Igor to his Frankenstein.

Conditions at Pimlico and Laurel continue to progress in a positive manner. Today's news at Bowie does not change our plans to try to clear Barn 5 at Pimlico next week after test results are returned.

No matter how many times we play these songs live, we don't tire of them. We love that some of them have become a soundtrack to people's lives - that people remember where they were when that song became important to them. Hey, that's the way we feel when we hear an old David Bowie or T.Rex song.

In my creative life, David Bowie is definitely an enormous influence on me, being one of rock's greatest shapeshifters.

I really didn't get obsessed with Bowie until my freshman year in high school. I remember listening to 'Starman' and thinking it sounded like it was a song for kids, like a lullaby. The Thin White Duke is my favorite look that he created.

I just couldn't handle his act -- his Jim Bowie knife on his belt, cowboy hat, and fringed jacket,

How could 30 years be the blink-of-the-eye it felt? It was the difference between black-and-white footage of the Second World War and David Bowie on 'Top of the Pops' singing 'Life on Mars.'

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

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.

If I hear Bowie Kuhn say just once more he's doing something for the betterment of baseball, I'm going to throw-up.

If David Bowie wants, I'll put him in my phone book.

He built our home behind the business out of an old Camp Bowie barracks.

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

I am a big David Bowie fan.

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

The kids are improving from last week. The big surprise for me was Justin Bowie in the long jump. We just have to keep improving and good things will happen.

What about David Bowie? He's a sexy creature.

David Bowie told me my music sounds like tomorrow

How I love David Bowie.

I'm from the same planet as David Bowie.

Bowie's obviously my biggest influence.

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

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.