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
When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all the artforms are the same in the end.
It always felt like you were trying too hard to look like the audience or something. That whole thing about the artistic integrity, which, of course, I've never bought into - with any artist. It's just not a real thing.
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.
There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists. There are good things and bad things about being an artist, and the good thing is, sometimes you get an inside line on what's really happening. You develop these strange antennae that clue you in to what's really going on.
I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents.
I'll ruin everything you are, I'll give you television.
Elvis is English, and climbs the hills. Can't tell the bullshit from the lies.
She's a total bam bam.
I'll stick with you baby for a thousand years.
Some make you sing and some make you scream. One makes you wish that you'd never been seen. But there's a shop on the corner that's selling papier mache, making bullet-proof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay. If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.
If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.
Hey man, I gotta straighten my face. This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place.
No more free steps to heaven.
Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.