Bowie Quotes - page 2

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.' (Ali Smith)
Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that. View quote
Ed O'Brien
I was looking at people like Jim Morrison and David Bowie and Mick Jagger and I thought, Ah! I want to look like them. View quote
Tommy Hilfiger
When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Charles Lindbergh, my pantheon of favorite heroes. Then I would write my own things and sew them together and try to make my own book. View quote
Douglas Brinkley
I guess my style is a cross between David Bowie and Clint Eastwood. View quote
Dylan McDermott
I'd been a Bowie fan before punk and used to get no end of trouble. I was always getting knocked about and having to run up the street, getting chased by people. It was horrible. View quote
Gary Numan
David Bowie, for me, was the butchest guy in town. Jagger was like a truck driver. View quote
Hedi Slimane
David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style. View quote
Lance Loud
Working with David Bowie was very interesting, but I couldn't surrender to it. I should have let him produce a record for me, but I'm very perverse in some ways. He's brilliant, but the entourage were rather daunting. View quote
Marianne Faithfull
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. View quote
Buzz Osborne
I do not use the word 'genius' lightly, but if David Bowie is not a genius, then there is no such thing. (Mick Rock)
I've been a big believer in musicians turned actor, going back to Sinatra winning the Oscar for 'From Here To Eternity.' David Bowie in 'Man Who Fell to Earth,' Kris Kristofferson's been great in a bunch of films. Liza Minnelli, Barbra Streisand, Mariah Carey, I thought was great in 'Precious. View quote
Peter Berg
David Bowie was awesome the easiest, coolest interview I have ever done. View quote
Rachel Perry
As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of course. Class stuff. David Cousins was my favorite lyricist. View quote
Rick Wakeman
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. View quote
Ryan McGinley
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. View quote
Lars von Trier
Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist. View quote
Moby
There were 'big stars' at the Alamo! Bowie, Crockett! It is a huge political event because it, and the events at Goliad and San Jacinto, changed the look of a map of America. America would be a very different place if Texas had remained Mexican. View quote
Phil Collins
We're confident people will take to us, because although the camp image has already been established by people like Bowie and Bolan we are taking it to another level. View quote
Freddie Mercury
David Bowie has a huge influence on me because his was his first concert I went to see. I remember watching him and thinking I didn't know what sex he was, and it didn't matter. Because one minute he was wearing body stockings - the whole Ziggy Stardust thing - and the next minute he was the Thin White Duke in white double-breasted suits, and there's something so androgynous about him. And I think androgyny, whether it's David Bowie or Helmut Berger, that has really really influenced my work more than anything. View quote
Madonna (entertainer)
I've never had any sort of macho revulsion of fags, but Bowie and I - never, never, never, never. Everybody would think that, but I never saw him be that way anyway. (Iggy Pop)
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. View quote
Clive Owen
David Bowie is such a big influence to me. Everything about him as a person is intriguing to me. View quote
Leona Lewis
I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him. View quote
Joaquin Phoenix
A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant. View quote
Adam Lambert