David Bowie
David Bowie
David Robert Jones, better known by his stage name David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter and actor. He was a figure in popular music for over five decades, regarded by critics and musicians as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, his music and stagecraft significantly influencing popular music. During his lifetime, his record sales, estimated at 140 million worldwide, made him one of the world's best-selling music...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth8 January 1947
CityLondon, England
Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming
I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.
I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.
I'm a born librarian with a sex drive
Trust nothing but your own experience.
The end comes when the infinites arrive.
I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.
I'm not sure whether it is me changing my mind, or whether I lie a lot.
... And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through...
Comfort comes into your house first as guest, then as a host, then finally as the master.
I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.
I want people to hear musicians like Joe Cuba. He has done things to whole masses of Puerto Rican people. The music is fantastic and important.
I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants.
There's a starman waiting in the sky, he'd like to come and meet us, but he thinks he'd blow our minds.