- “I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.” ― David Bowie
- "Normally before a battle the men would make themselves up to look as beautiful and amazing as possible. Then they’d go out and hack each other to pieces. That’s not my bag, of course. But based on that you can hardly call make-up unmasculine. And if you look to the animal world, so often the male is more beautiful then the female - look at peacocks and lions. And look at all the old kings and dandies Really make-up and beautiful clothes are fundamental to me. It’s just that we live in such a strange society." - David Bowie, speaking in 1972
- I was going through all these books, and they were pouring out all over the floor, there were just mountains of books. And Nic (Roeg) was sitting there watching me and he said, “Your great problem, David, is that you don’t read enough.” And I didn’t even think it was funny until months later. I really thought he was serious. And I felt so depressed and I thought, “What else should I read?” It didn’t occur to me at the time that it was a joke. — Bowie, recalling the filming of Man Who Fell to Earth, quoted in Jerry Hopkins’ Bowie (1985)
- « 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 in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go » - Bowie
- "The one thing I didn’t like was being terribly shy. An incredibly shy person. And so I overcompensated. I thought that if I gave myself an alarming kind of reputation then I would have to learn to defend myself and therefore come out of myself" — David Bowie
- "People are so fucking dumb. Nobody reads anymore, nobody goes out and looks and explores the society and culture they were brought up in. People have attention spans of five seconds and as much depth as a glass of water." - David Bowie
- "I never expected all this to happen. In the sixties I was told I was too avant-garde to be successful."- Bowie
- I`m always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don`t even take what I am seriously. - David Bowie
- ”There was one time when I saw him being made up for a Russell Harty show in January 1973 and I remember looking at his reflection in the mirror and thinking, this is the most beautiful man I’ve ever seen. I don’t remember him being camp at any time but he was beautiful. It comes from the bone structure, I think. It was beauty as opposed to handsomeness.”- Ken Scott on David Bowie
- ”The best way to get to know a city is to count up how much change you have in your pocket and take the subway as far as that amount gets you.” David Bowie on traveling in Japan
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