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CHRIS CORNELL I listen to a lot of old music, like Joni Mitchell and David Bowie.
SOPHIE MCSHERA It's not just about David Bowie. It's about the music.
LANE DUNLOP As I always said: I fell in with David Jones. I did not fall in love with David Bowie.
IMAN I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist.
MOBY Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met.
IMAN David Bowie was awesome the easiest, coolest interview I have ever done.
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MORRISSEY The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork...
MIGUEL Eight months after graduating from Ryerson, there I was in West Berlin working with Marlene Dietrich...
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ESPERANZA SPALDING More and more, there are things in my life that I find hard to say. Like, 'David Bowie and Lorde...
TILDA SWINTON David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
LANCE LOUD His name is David Bowie and he's nineteen. Would you like to meet him?
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MANIKA I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and Da...
JOAQUIN PHOENIX I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.
DAMIAN MARLEY Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging...
DAVID BOWIE It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie c...
VAL KILMER As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so man...
RICK WAKEMAN I'm a born librarian with a sex drive
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SCOTT WEILAND I love singing and I think I have a really nice voice, but I don't think I have an unbelievable ...
KATIE FINNERAN I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not rea...
JOHN SHIRLEY I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.
WANDA JACKSON Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I a...
TOM BODETT I think just generally, my footwork was really not good and it was uncomfortable to move around the ...
PATTY SCHNYDER Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And afte...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE Bowie is less about trappings and more about the traps that seek to limit human potential.
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HERB ALPERT Growing up, I was always prancing around and singing... and I just never really stopped.
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ADAM LAMBERT David Bowie worked with Brian Eno and dressed up in extraordinary clothes, but he was also a brillia...
BAT FOR LASHES I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.
TED SHACKELFORD The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young...
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VINCE GILL When I think about that first DeBarge album, I remember being so green... just pristine. Nothing mat...
EL DEBARGE Before I met David Bowie, I was very nervous. I thought, 'Here comes the Thin White Duke, Ziggy ...
RORY MACLEAN Who would i be today if i did not learn the lessons that life gives, to have the strength against al...
GARY F EVANS... I do not use the word 'genius' lightly, but if David Bowie is not a genius, then there is no...
MICK ROCK I think without writing I would feel completely useless.
SAM SHEPARD The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.
THOMAS MALTHUS I'm a big Otis Redding fan, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. My hero is David Bowie. But I ...
TARON EGERTON I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.
ADAM D'ANGELO I think a construction project for me is like writing a novel. I can't do the project unless I c...
DAVID BERGEN I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.
ERIC ROHMER For me, the worst writing generally just 'flips' things: this person's really a traitor;...
NIC PIZZOLATTO I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without makin...
KATE CHRISTENSEN If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.
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LARS VON TRIER Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
BUDDHA I was obsessed with David Bowie - still am. He's a babe, a total babe. His music is killer; his ...
CHARLOTTE SULLIVAN Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the uni...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land, And don't criticize What you can't understand
BOB DYLAN Rise O fallen fighters, rise and take your stance again, He who fight and run away, live to fight an...
BOB MARLEY Singing is such an excellent thing, that I wish all people would sing
RICHARD BYRD When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ...
MONSERRAT CABALLé Sing, Sing a song, Sing out loud, Sing out strong, Sing of good things, not bad, Sing of happy, not ...
JOE RAPOSO Don't go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before Don't imagine you're too famili...
BILLY JOEL I think all the boys that write the screaming stuff would write the best love songs.... because they...
TORI AMOS I couldn't stand Janis Joplin's voice... she was just a screaming little loudmouthed chick.
ARTHUR LEE Like We Never Loved At All.
FAITH HILL This Kiss.
FAITH HILL I don't know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.
MARIA CALLAS I always wanted to be a singer, it's what I wanted to do since I was little. I'm doing it now and I ...
BRITNEY SPEARS The Oprah Winfrey Show.
FAITH HILL As a teenager I was crazy about David Bowie. He was a huge inspiration for me. I dressed a little bi...
CLIVE OWEN I just wanted to eat, to survive. I started singing a cappella in bars. I saved up money to get my f...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE I have my writing and acting and producing and directing, and my younger brother has his music and h...
KEVIN SCHMIDT Generally, I think most of my writing tends to have some kind of magical element to it. That's t...
AIMEE BENDER I've liked country music for forever. And Buck Owens is just one of many country guitarists I li...
BUZZ OSBORNE David Bowie, for me, was the butchest guy in town. Jagger was like a truck driver.
HEDI SLIMANE I think I kind of came out of the womb singing. I think I was, like, born at the hospital, and, you ...
EMILY ROSSUM I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.
BARRY GIBB It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and wr...
KENNETH WILLIAMS I really look forward to putting on a record. I love writing music and think that may be my strong s...
JAMES WOLPERT I got a lot of empathy from my mother growing up, and I think it prevented me from ever really just ...
MATT MCGORRY The bravest thing David Bowie ever did was to go on stage after Queen at Live Aid.
STEWART STAFFORD The Great and Tragic Love of Jonathan Shadowhunter and David the Silent, by Clary Fray, Aged 1...
CASSANDRA CLARE It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how...
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MICHAEL VAN WHY One month I'll be completely obsessed with Bob Dylan and the next Arcade Fire. I like early Elto...
TOM ODELL I don't envision a very long life for myself. I think my life will run out before my work does. ...
TOWNES VAN ZANDT It was just me in my basement honing my skills, hearing songs on the radio and trying to manipulate ...
CLINTON SPARKS He's writing what I'm singing, and I'm writing what he's playing.
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DAVID BOWIE There's a taste in my mouth and it's no taste at all.

- Queen Bitch
DAVID BOWIE When I looked in her eyes they were blue but nobody home.

- Scarey Monsters (and Super...
DAVID BOWIE Some make you sing and some make you scream,
One makes you wish that you'd never been seen.
DAVID BOWIE And I don't care what anybody says; I like doing it, and it's what I shall continue to do
DAVID BOWIE Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging...
DAVID BOWIE We can be "heroes" just for one day.

- "Heroes"
DAVID BOWIE No more free steps to heaven.

- It's No Game
DAVID BOWIE We can be heroes just for one day
DAVID BOWIE HEROES I didn't feel the need to rebel as a teenager. From age nine to 16, I went to school in Montreux...
ANGELA BOWIE Salary arbitration is probably in place - was put in place then and probably is in place now - becau...
BOWIE KUHN During my childhood in Cyprus, the British talked about the Cypriots as if the Cypriots were outside...
ANGELA BOWIE We think that it is clearly being directed against our company. If it's truly a worthy cause, then i...
CATHERINE BOWIE We felt there was so much misinformation being put out about the company that it was time to stand u...
CATHERINE BOWIE We really haven't decided everything we are going to do. None of it will be occurring at ratepayer e...
CATHERINE BOWIE To add the cost of (a new water) project to the cost of buying out the company would not save ratepa...
CATHERINE BOWIE We're concerned an unfair standard is being applied as to cleanup.
CATHERINE BOWIE Being a grandparent doesn't interest me whatsoever. Babies are all right if they're your own...
ANGELA BOWIE The trumpet is forceful.
LESTER BOWIE Even though she didn't qualify, she was still so happy with her ride and will go to the championship...
ANNE BOWIE I go to support her at every show and as a trainer, we can coach all the way up until the riders act...
ANNE BOWIE She is 100-percent committed to her sport. She is as devoted as any instructor of any sport would wa...
ANNE BOWIE I don't know how much love David felt - I suspect very little. My main appeal to him was as a nu...
ANGELA BOWIE