You get to a certain age, and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines; you're not going to get played on radio, and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.


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If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But...
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I'm not actually a very keen performer. I like putting shows together. I like putting events tog...
DAVID BOWIE
Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part ...
DAVID BOWIE
I was never particularly fond of my voice.
DAVID BOWIE
I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and rec...
DAVID BOWIE
I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Zigg...
DAVID BOWIE
I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I'm a...
DAVID BOWIE
I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time...
DAVID BOWIE
But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.
DAVID BOWIE
I couldn't have written things like 'Low' and 'Heroes,' those particular albums,...
DAVID BOWIE
It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth.
DAVID BOWIE
I'm not very articulate.
DAVID BOWIE
When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn't live past 30.
DAVID BOWIE
I'll tell you who I absolutely adore: Ian McEwan.
DAVID BOWIE
I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to sa...
DAVID BOWIE
I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup...
DAVID BOWIE
I'm very good at what I do, and I don't turn my hand to something unless I'm very good a...
DAVID BOWIE
I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn&#...
DAVID BOWIE
I'm a born librarian with a sex drive
DAVID BOWIE
Don't let me hear you say life takes you nowhere, angel.

- Golden Years
DAVID BOWIE
What is the quality you most like in a man?
The ability to return books.
DAVID BOWIE
Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out...
DAVID BOWIE
Make the best of every moment. We’re not evolving. We’re not going anywhere.
DAVID BOWIE
There's a taste in my mouth and it's no taste at all.

- Queen Bitch
DAVID BOWIE
When I looked in her eyes they were blue but nobody home.

- Scarey Monsters (and Super...
DAVID BOWIE
Some make you sing and some make you scream,
One makes you wish that you'd never been seen.
DAVID BOWIE
And I don't care what anybody says; I like doing it, and it's what I shall continue to do
DAVID BOWIE
Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging...
DAVID BOWIE
We can be "heroes" just for one day.

- "Heroes"
DAVID BOWIE
No more free steps to heaven.

- It's No Game
DAVID BOWIE
We can be heroes just for one day
DAVID BOWIE HEROES
I didn't feel the need to rebel as a teenager. From age nine to 16, I went to school in Montreux...
ANGELA BOWIE
Salary arbitration is probably in place - was put in place then and probably is in place now - becau...
BOWIE KUHN
During my childhood in Cyprus, the British talked about the Cypriots as if the Cypriots were outside...
ANGELA BOWIE
We think that it is clearly being directed against our company. If it's truly a worthy cause, then i...
CATHERINE BOWIE
We felt there was so much misinformation being put out about the company that it was time to stand u...
CATHERINE BOWIE
We really haven't decided everything we are going to do. None of it will be occurring at ratepayer e...
CATHERINE BOWIE
To add the cost of (a new water) project to the cost of buying out the company would not save ratepa...
CATHERINE BOWIE
We're concerned an unfair standard is being applied as to cleanup.
CATHERINE BOWIE
Being a grandparent doesn't interest me whatsoever. Babies are all right if they're your own...
ANGELA BOWIE
The trumpet is forceful.
LESTER BOWIE
Even though she didn't qualify, she was still so happy with her ride and will go to the championship...
ANNE BOWIE
I go to support her at every show and as a trainer, we can coach all the way up until the riders act...
ANNE BOWIE
She is 100-percent committed to her sport. She is as devoted as any instructor of any sport would wa...
ANNE BOWIE
I don't know how much love David felt - I suspect very little. My main appeal to him was as a nu...
ANGELA BOWIE