Quotes

“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

“I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.” David Bowie

“I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I'm proud of what I've done. In fact it's been a good ride.” David Bowie

“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

“Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.” David Bowie

“Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.” David Bowie

“Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.” David Bowie

“Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.” David Bowie

“That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true... Hell, don't pose me that one.” David Bowie

“The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.” David Bowie

“There's a good television programme called 'Disco 2.' It's quite good but again it's average, average. It's all on a down play. You know we've got this thing in England to be hip is to speak very down - like John Peel. And that just about sums up England. They don't realize when they talk like that, then that is what they represent - absolutely.” David Bowie

“To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.” David Bowie

“Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn't see a space in which we could get anything together.” David Bowie

“What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I'm a pop singer for Christ's sake. As a person, I'm fairly uncomplicated.” David Bowie

“When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.” David Bowie

“When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.” David Bowie

“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.” John Rockefeller

“A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.” John Rockefeller

“Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” John Rockefeller

“Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.” John Rockefeller

“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.” John Rockefeller

“I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.” John Rockefeller

“Competition is a sin.” John Rockefeller

“I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.” John Rockefeller

“Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.” John Rockefeller

“There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.” John Rockefeller

“And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.” John Rockefeller

“If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.” John Rockefeller

“Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.” John Rockefeller

“I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.” John Rockefeller