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
I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings...
There's a terror in knowing what the world is about
I don't think I did anything that my contemporaries didn't; it was just that I was the only one who talked about it. In the Sixties anyone who had a sense of style seemed to be gay. I wanted to indentify with that.
I've learned to relax and be my present age and my present position. I feel comfortable on my mid-thirties. It doesn't seem such an alien place to be.
I surrounded myself with people who indulged my ego. They treated me as though I was Ziggy Stardust or one of my characters, never realising that David Jones might be behind it.
It is entirely possible to create something totally artificial within the realms of rock and roll.
If we could be heroes, if just for one day.
You go through stages where you wonder whether you are Christ, or just looking for him.
Who'll love Aladdin Sane? Battle cries and champagne just in time for sunrise.
I'm afraid of Americans.
Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one’s emotional plane.
Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.
I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.
But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.