David Bowie Quotes

Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

With a suit, always wear big British shoes, the ones with large welts. There’s nothing worse than dainty little Italian jobs at the end of the leg line.

I don’t make changes to confuse anyone. I’m just searching. That’s what causes me to change. I’m just searching for myself.

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

I would drive to gigs in my tiny little Fiat. I would shoot up and down the M1 to play at various places.

I re-invented my image so many times that I’m in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.

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.

I don’t profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

These are all personal crises, I’m sure, that I manifest in a song format and project into physical situations. You make little stories up about how you feel. It’s as simple as that.

For me, often, there’s such a cloud of melancholia about knowing I’m going to have to leave my daughter on her own. I don’t know what age that is going to be, thank God. It just doubles me up in grief.

I think Mustique is Duchampian – it will always provide an endless source of delight.

The Internet carries the flag of being subversive and possibly rebellious and chaotic, nihilistic.

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me.

Art was, seriously, the only thing I’d ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.