I think a lot of that album ["Tonight" ] is still very good . . . the songs, but I think I… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
The younger people get into the lyrics in a different way; there's much more of a tactile understanding, which is the way… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I once asked [John] Lennon what he thought of what I do. He said 'it's great, but its just rock and roll… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it's the recording or the… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I think the first song I ever wrote ... was called "Can't Help Thinking About Me." That's an illuminating little piece, isn't it? — David Bowie Copy Share Image
On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
On "Tonight" I think I was torn dreadfully between writing what I wanted to write, but keeping it in a style that… — 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
I cannot with any real integrity perform songs I've done for 25 years. I don't need the money. What I need is… — 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
Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than… — 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 went mainstream in a major way with the song "Let's Dance." And what I found I had done was put a… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Actually, my ambition at eight or nine years old was to be one of Little Richard's sax players, and that's when I… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I am a moderately good singer. I am not a great singer but I can interpret a song, which I don't think… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I'm quite certain that the audience that I've got for my stuff don't listen to the lyrics. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my… — 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
David Bowie emerged as a rock star in the late '60s. And as Ken Tucker wrote, "In the face of the hippy… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I never really got the book together for the thing, so I had all the songs and the characters. But by the… — 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
A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own… — 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 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 think it's rather a waste of time endlessly singing the same songs every night for a year, and it's just not… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I think that the history of rock could be recycled in a different way and brought back into focus without the luggage… — 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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