I think that the history of rock could be recycled in a different way and brought back into focus without the luggage that comes along with it. David Bowie More Quotes by David Bowie More Quotes From David Bowie Actually, my ambition at eight or nine years old was to be one of Little Richard's sax players, and that's when I got my first saxophone, a Selmer. It was a strange Bakelite material - that creamy plastic with all the gold keys on it. I had to get a job as a butcher's delivery boy to start paying for it. David Bowie ambition player boys The media is either our salvation or our death. David Bowie salvation media I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway. David Bowie character mean thinking Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist David Bowie radical-change artist made Some of us, I think, us small, pompous arty ones probably read too much George Steiner and kind of got the idea that we were entering to this kind of post-culture age and that we'd better do something postmodernist - quickly, before somebody else did. David Bowie age ideas thinking It's not the side-effects of the cocaine - I'm thinking that it must be love. It's too late to be grateful, It's too late to be hateful, It's too late to be late again, The European cannon is here. David Bowie grateful sides thinking Critics I don't understand. They get too intellectual. They're not very well-versed in street talk; it takes them longer to say it. So they have to do it in dictionaries and they take longer to say it. David Bowie wells critics intellectual I woke up one day and realized I was a closet hetero David Bowie closets one-day I had a fantasy that i'd drift up to Scotland and spend my life as a faux bodhisattua. David Bowie scotland faux fantasy I'm quite certain that the audience that I've got for my stuff don't listen to the lyrics. David Bowie audience certain stuff I'd rather stay here with all the madmen than perish with the sadmen roaming free. David Bowie roaming madmen insanity It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be. David Bowie would-be attention needs There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I've taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write. David Bowie taken heart writing Listen to me, don't listen to me. Talk to me, don't talk to me. David Bowie dont-talk-to-me talk-to-me explanation I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song. David Bowie expression wish song People got extremely comfortable with being able to turn on their television and see MTV say, "This guy's hot you should buy this record." David Bowie mtv guy people For here, am I sitting in a tin can, far above the world. Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do... Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles, I'm feeling very still - and I think my spaceship knows which way to go. Tell my wife I love her very much. David Bowie past travel thinking She's a total bam bam. David Bowie compliment We were terribly excited, and I think we took it on our shoulders that we were creating the 21st century in 1971. That was the idea. And we wanted to just blast everything in the past, rather like the vorticists did at the beginning of the century in the Britain or the dadaists did Europe, you know. It was the same sensibility of everything is rubbish, and all rubbish is wonderful. David Bowie europe past thinking It's not the side effects of the cocaine. . . . I'm thinking that it must be love. David Bowie cocaine sides thinking
