Aspiration Quote by Edwyn Collins

I was a huge Bowie fan since I was 12 years old. That was the first 'punk' rock I got into in the Seventies.…

— Buzz Osborne

I was a kid at the end of the 1960s and in the early 1970s, so a lot of things changed. You had pop…

— Dries van Noten

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…

— Marianne Faithfull

I loved the idea of Bowie as an artist, with his Burroughsian cut-up technique, creating these undecipherable, abstract songs, where we all projected our…

— Frankie Boyle

My mum and dad are massive Bowie fans, so I grew up listening to his music.

— Noel Fielding

Bowie's been a huge influence on me. I remember early on, my dad pulling out the 'Diamond Dogs' album, and the cover alone just…

— Adam Lambert

The first music I loved on my own was punk.

— Ezra Furman

I don't think we ever sat down in the early days and said "hey lets be a band that wears make up". I think…

— Andy Biersack

My earliest musical memory was getting to watch my dad play drums in a local band. He's a banker by trade, but a drummer…

— Charlie Worsham

[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz.

— David Bowie

When I was a very young kid, the first music that really turned me on was a new wave of British heavy metal -…

— Steven Wilson

I was into all the standard 60s stuff like the Beatles, the Stones and Dylan, and I like David Bowie quite a bit.

— Michael Penn