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 don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.
Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.
I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me.
I'm very good at what I do, and I don't turn my hand to something unless I'm very good at it, frankly.
I told them I'd only do it if they got Arcade Fire to perform. They're fantastic.
I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents.
I'll ruin everything you are, I'll give you television.
Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.
I am a D.J., I am what I play.
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.