Ziggy played guitar, jamming good with Weird and Gilly. David Bowie More Quotes by David Bowie More Quotes From David Bowie I'm English. I can't accept happiness that easily. There's got to be a trick in there somewhere. David Bowie tricksacceptingi-can 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 ambitionplayerboys The media is either our salvation or our death. David Bowie salvationmedia 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 charactermeanthinking Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist David Bowie radical-changeartistmade 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 ageideasthinking 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 gratefulsidesthinking 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 wellscriticsintellectual I woke up one day and realized I was a closet hetero David Bowie closetsone-day I had a fantasy that i'd drift up to Scotland and spend my life as a faux bodhisattua. David Bowie scotlandfauxfantasy I'm quite certain that the audience that I've got for my stuff don't listen to the lyrics. David Bowie audiencecertainstuff I'd rather stay here with all the madmen than perish with the sadmen roaming free. David Bowie roamingmadmeninsanity 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-beattentionneeds 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 takenheartwriting Listen to me, don't listen to me. Talk to me, don't talk to me. David Bowie dont-talk-to-metalk-to-meexplanation 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 expressionwishsong 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 mtvguypeople 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 pasttravelthinking 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 europepastthinking
