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David Bowie Quotes

Total quotes: 17
“I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.”
— David Bowie, The Age of Bowie
Tagged: Mindset, Needs
“Trust nothing but your own experience.”
— David Bowie, David Bowie: 'You're Never Who You Think You Are'
Tagged: Trust, Experience, Self-motivation
“I had this poetic, romantic juvenile idea that I’d be dead by 30. And then suddenly you’re 40. And then 50. Then 57.”
— David Bowie, David Bowie: The Last Five Years
Tagged: Poetic, Romantic, Juvenile, Aging
“I would love to feel that what I did actually changed the fabric of music.”
— David Bowie, David Bowie: The Last Five Years
Tagged: Music, Innovation
“I wouldn’t dream of getting on a spaceship, It’d scare the shit out of me….I’m scared going down the end of the garden.”
— David Bowie, David Bowie: The Last Five Years
Tagged: Outer Space, Space Travel, Fear
“I’m not content to be just a rock’n roll star. I’m trying to be one at the moment just so I can get off into other things.”
— David Bowie, David Bowie: The Last Five Years
Tagged: Fame, celebrity, Opportunism, Means To An End
“I found I didn’t get so shy if I sort of adopted a character. So it was a convenience, as well as a very bright theatrical idea.”
— David Bowie, David Bowie: The Last Five Years
Tagged: shyness, Stage Fright, Theatrical, Ziggy Stardust
“I have a certain niche that I work in. A lot of it has to be about alienation. Being on the outside of things. That tends to be where I feel more comfortable as a writer.”
— David Bowie, David Bowie: The Last Five Years
Tagged: Niche, Writing, Alienation
“I'm not a Dylan….I’m not somebody who can stoically write a clear picture of what's happening. But I can leave a very strong impression of how I feel about it.”
— David Bowie, David Bowie: The Last Five Years
Tagged: Bob Dylan, Realism, Impressionism
“I’m much more interested in the process of life; the celebrity side of it, I couldn’t give a sausage.”
— David Bowie, David Bowie: The Last Five Years
Tagged: celebrity, Life, Sausage, Privacy
“Fame is a very luxuriant mental hospital.”
— David Bowie, David Bowie: The Last Five Years
Tagged: Fame, Luxury, Mental Hospital, Prison
“I’d love people to believe that I really had great haircuts.”
— David Bowie, David Bowie: The Last Five Years
Tagged: Fashion, Haircuts
“It was a book that I'd loved all through my youth. But of course I didn't take into account the second Mrs. Orwell, who when she got wind of what we were doing, absolutely put her foot down and said, 'I'm not having rock and roll people work on my late husband's great piece of work.'”
— David Bowie, David Bowie: The Last Five Years
Tagged: George Orwell, 1984, Rock and Roll
“I’m not really very keen to put on much of a theatrical show in terms of big sets and fireworks and elephants. Of course that doesn’t mean that I won’t go back on my word because that’s part and parcel of what I do for you. Part of my entertaining factor is lying to you.”
— David Bowie, David Bowie: The Last Five Years
Tagged: Entertainment, Deception
“I’ve got drama, can’t be stolen.”
— David Bowie, Lazarus
Tagged: Opening Lyrics, Best Opening Lyrics In Songs, Song Opener, songopener, Best Opening Lyrics
“What a disappointing 21st century this has been so far.”
— David Bowie, David Bowie: The Last Five Years
Tagged: Disappointment, 2000, Expectations, 21st Century
“I think it’s terribly dangerous for an artist to fulfill other people’s expectations. If you feel safe in the area that you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.”
— David Bowie, David Bowie: The Last Five Years
Tagged: Experimentation, Risk, Metaphor, Artists, Playing It Safe, Making Art, risks
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