The younger people get into the lyrics in a different way; there's much more of a tactile understanding, which is the way I prefer it. David Bowie More Quotes by David Bowie More Quotes From David Bowie It would be positively boring if minds were in tune. David Bowie tuneswould-bemind I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me, because it's not their profession to do that. David Bowie writingkidspeople If I hadn't had my children, I would have been discouraged a lot quicker. It would have been much more easy for me to say, "You know what, let the whole thing go. Have a good time, because these people, this place - it's just not worth it." You know? I can't do that anymore. I look into those eyes and they look at me so trustingly that I'm gonna make sure that [they're thinking], "Hey, you did a good thing bringing me into the world, daddy. I'm going to have a great life!" David Bowie eyechildrenthinking But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people. David Bowie wellspeoplethinking The world that I inhabit in reality is probably very different world than the one people expect that I would be in. It is quite sedate. It's far removed from a lot of what they would feel to be the limousine traveling rock existence, or whatever. David Bowie rocksrealitypeople 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. David Bowie styleartisthands Never bored, so I'll never get old David Bowie bored I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12. David Bowie mediachildrenthinking Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don't think I'm camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage. David Bowie departurehomethinking I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents. David Bowie i-believetalentbelieve I'm bemused by the whole Robbie Williams aspect of British pop. Posh Spice? It all looks like cruise ship entertainment to me. David Bowie spicesshipslooks It's true - I am a bisexual. But I can't deny that I've used that fact very well. I suppose it's the best thing that ever happened to me. David Bowie bisexualdenyfacts I have absolutely no interest in rock and roll. I'm just being David Bowie. Mick Jagger is rock and roll. I mean, I go out and my music is roughly the format of rock and roll, I use the chord changes of rock and roll, but I don't feel I'm a rock and roll artist. I'd be a terrible rock artist, absolutely ghastly. David Bowie music-isartistmean [While] my life started taking on all the problems of addiction. So that took me off into an area where relationships were absolutely impossible to handle on any real level. . . . Even communicating with other people was impossible. David Bowie addictionrealpeople My particular thing is discovering what can be done with media and how it can be used. You can't draw people together like one big huge family, people don't want that. They want isolation or a tribal thing. David Bowie mediatogetherpeople I guess a certain contingent of the musicians in London at the beginning of the '70s were fed up with denim and the hippies. And I think we kind of wanted to go somewhere else. David Bowie hippiesomewhere-elsethinking A lot of people provide me with quotes. They suggest all kinds of things to say and I do, really, because I'm not very hip at all. David Bowie hipskindpeople The coming together of people I find obscene as a principle. It is not human. It is not a natural thing as some people would have us believe. David Bowie togetherbelievepeople Funk, I don't think I have anything to do with funk. I've never considered myself funky. David Bowie funkyfunkthinking I started playing around with local rock band swith the alto. And then, in a nutshell, somebody fell ill one night, the lead singer of one of the bands, and they knew I could sing, so they asked me if I would stand in. And I quite enjoyed it, actually, I must say, at 14. It was a real trip to have girls wave at you and smile and everything just because you opened your mouth and sang. David Bowie girlrealnight
