I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I think music should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself. It should be the clown, the Pierrot… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I want people to hear musicians like Joe Cuba. He has done things to whole masses of Puerto Rican people. The music… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
There was a time in America not long ago when rock 'n' roll was called race music, and white kids who wanted… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I liked rock music, I kind of moved into that sphere, somehow thinking that somewhere along the line I'd be able to… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Rather than really have, like a close relationship to anything that's coming out today, people are just, they've got it on as… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
One day in Berlin ... Eno came running in and said, 'I have heard the sound of the future.' ... he puts… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I thought that I could do some kind of vehicle involving rock musicals and presenting rock and characters and storyline in a… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I do value the respect I get from my contemporaries, but to have Oasis cover my song, to have Puff Daddy cover… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I have found myself deeply, deeply intrigued by the ska-punk scene. It's such an expressive form of popular music, it's so real,… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music,… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I never heard so many kids talk about just doing anything to be famous. I mean, yeah, fame is part of the… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I've started doing book reviews for Barnes & Noble! They saw that I did a lot of book reviews on the site,… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Rock has always been the devil's music... I believe that rock & roll is dangerous... I feel that we're only heralding something… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doing.… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Having not really written any generational songs - I think maybe two or three of the songs that I've ever written have… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Dance music is no longer a simple Donna Summer beat. It's become a whole language that I find fascinating and exciting. Eventually,… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
When the musical keyboard was created in the 1970's, you had electronic geeks that had no background in music created these devises… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
What I like doing is writing and recording and much more on the, I guess, the - on that creative level. It's… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars.… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Rock has always been THE DEVIL'S MUSIC . . . I believe rock and roll is dangerous . . . I feel… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I guess a certain contingent of the musicians in London at the beginning of the '70s were fed up with denim and… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I'm not sure whether it is me changing my mind, or whether I lie a lot. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it's so essential that when I'm involved… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I went mainstream in a major way with the song "Let's Dance." And what I found I had done was put a box around… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
“Keep your 'lectric eye on me babe Put your ray gun to my head Press your space face close to mine, love Freak out… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
TV has eaten up everything else, and Warhol films are all that are left, which is fabulous. Pork could become the next I Love… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
“My brain hurt like a warehouse It had no room to spare I had to cram so many things to store everything in there… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
... And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
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