David Bowie
10 quotes
“as though I had a lot of years behind me. Now I do, so there is a difference in the weight of memory. When you're young, you're still”
“David Bowie: An Obituary”
“Looking back at David Bowie's invaluable advice for young artists”
“Of course I do!!!! its some cunt in a clown suit.”
“Music has given me over 40 years of extraordinary experiences. I can't say that life's pains or more tragic episodes have been diminished because of it. But it's allowed me so many moments of companionship when I've been lonely and a sublime means of communication when I wanted to touch people . It's been both my doorway of perception and the house that I live in. I only hope that it embraces you with the same lusty life force that it graciously offered me. Commencement Address for the Berklee College of Music, at Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts”
“I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants. Interviewed in Q magazine”
“Sermon From the Savoy”
“I get offered so many bad movies. And they're all raging queens or transvestites or Martians. 1983 Comment, quoted in Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies 15th Edition (2003) by Leslie Halliwell, p. 60”
“I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir. Quoted in the chapter on Bowie in Valentines & Vitriol (1978) by Rex Reed”
“Fuck that. I want to be a superman.”