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
To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.
Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.
As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?
I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.
Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.
One day I realized that I really needed to stop losing myself in my work and in my addictions. What happens is you just wake up one morning and feel absolutely dead. You can't even drag your soul back into your body. You feel you have negated everything that is wonderful about life. When you have fallen that far, it feels like a miracle when you regain your love of life. That's when you can begin really looking for a relationship. When you can appreciate the whole concept of giving to someone, not just taking.
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.