Trying to tart the rock business up a bit is getting nearer to what the kids themselves are like, because what I find, if you want to talk in the terms of rock, a lot depends on sensationalism and the kids are a lot more sensational than the stars themselves.

— David Bowie

David Bowie Quotes

I don’t mind trying it out and making sure something seems to work well.

— David Bowie

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

— David Bowie

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.

— David Bowie

I’m quite certain that the audience that I’ve got for my stuff don’t listen to the lyrics.

— David Bowie

I’m wary of the word glam because I think that became the all-inclusive term with for any bloke with lipstick on, which is fine, you know, and that’s what it is when it comes down to the public level.

— David Bowie

Trying to tart the rock business up a bit is getting nearer to what the kids themselves are like, because what I find, if you want to talk in the terms of rock, a lot depends on sensationalism and the kids are a lot more sensational than the stars themselves.

— David Bowie

I didn’t say that wearing a glamorization of the rock artist was any truer from the other thing.

— David Bowie

Some of us, I think, us small, pompous arty ones probably read too much George Steiner and kind of got the idea that we were entering to this kind of post-culture age and that we’d better do something postmodernist – quickly, before somebody else did.

— David Bowie

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.

— David Bowie

Sexuality and where it is going is an extraordinary question, for I don’t see it going anywhere. It is with me, and that’s it.

— David Bowie

The public, obviously, they takes things in a very simplest fashion and so they should. That’s why we have such wonderful television.

— David Bowie

The media is either our salvation or our death.

— David Bowie

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.

— David Bowie

It would be positively boring if minds were in tune.

— David Bowie

I’m rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it’s no longer his.

— David Bowie

You should turn around at the end of the day and say I really like that piece of work, or that piece of work sucked. Not, was that popular or wasn’t it popular?

— David Bowie

Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.

— David Bowie

I don’t like talk and I don’t like talkers. Like Ma Barker. That’s what she always said, ‘Ma Barker doesn’t like talk and she doesn’t like talkers.’ She just sat there with her gun.

— David Bowie

I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.

— David Bowie

I went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both classes, so I have a pretty fair idea of how people live and why they do it.

— David Bowie
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