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How I love David Bowie. -- Lady Gaga
Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist. -- Moby
I guess my style is a cross between David Bowie and Clint Eastwood. -- Dylan McDermott
I listen to a lot of old music, like Joni Mitchell and David Bowie. -- Sophie McShera
David Bowie, for me, was the butchest guy in town. Jagger was like a truck driver. -- Hedi Slimane
David Bowie is such a big influence to me. Everything about him as a person is intriguing to me. -- Leona Lewis
It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how hard they lived. -- Mick Rock
I do not use the word 'genius' lightly, but if David Bowie is not a genius, then there is no such thing. -- Mick Rock
The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young to U2. -- Kelly Jones
I was obsessed with David Bowie - still am. He's a babe, a total babe. His music is killer; his visuals are beautiful. -- Charlotte Sullivan
As suburbs go, Bromley's not bad. But as David Bowie and Hanif Kureishi have observed, you do want to get out of there quickly. -- Tibor Fischer
I was looking at people like Jim Morrison and David Bowie and Mick Jagger and I thought, Ah! I want to look like them. -- Tommy Hilfiger
I went through a pretty big David Bowie period when I was younger, and that has affected me profoundly in my life and my work. -- Ryan McGinley
When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music. -- Lars von Trier
I think people are 'just creative,' and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan and David Bowie create both music and art. -- Ronnie Wood
I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him. -- Joaquin Phoenix
As a teenager I was crazy about David Bowie. He was a huge inspiration for me. I dressed a little bit crazily in school and dyed my hair every colour under the sun. -- Clive Owen
How could 30 years be the blink-of-the-eye it felt? It was the difference between black-and-white footage of the Second World War and David Bowie on 'Top of the Pops' singing 'Life on Mars.' -- Ali Smith
As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of course. Class stuff. David Cousins was my favorite lyricist. -- Rick Wakeman
Everyone wants to pretend like they sprang out of the ground with an Animal Collective record in their hands and a David Bowie haircut, and that's just not the case. You discover these things gradually. -- Patrick Stump
Working with David Bowie was very interesting, but I couldn't surrender to it. I should have let him produce a record for me, but I'm very perverse in some ways. He's brilliant, but the entourage were rather daunting. -- Marianne Faithfull
I was a kid at the end of the 1960s and in the early 1970s, so a lot of things changed. You had pop music coming up, with David Bowie, you had new television programmes and all these things. I was fascinated. -- Dries van Noten
One month I'll be completely obsessed with Bob Dylan and the next Arcade Fire. I like early Elton John and David Bowie, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. I listen to a lot of American bands. But I like listening to new bands, too. -- Tom Odell
Be strong and follow your own convictions. You can't assume there is a lot of time to do what you like. This is what David Bowie is afraid of: that he will die before he gets a chance to make a real strong contribution. -- Marc Bolan
I've been a big believer in musicians turned actor, going back to Sinatra winning the Oscar for 'From Here To Eternity.' David Bowie in 'Man Who Fell to Earth,' Kris Kristofferson's been great in a bunch of films. Liza Minnelli, Barbra Streisand, Mariah Carey, I thought was great in 'Precious.' -- Peter Berg
It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll. I've listened to 'Ziggy Stardust' as much as any rock n' roll fan - I don't really know what it's about, but it sure is fun to think about David Bowie as this mad creation. -- Val Kilmer
I am a big David Bowie fan. -- Kristen Wiig
I'm from the same planet as David Bowie. -- Tilda Swinton
What about David Bowie? He's a sexy creature. -- John Galliano
David Bowie told me my music sounds like tomorrow -- Lorde
Lady Gaga is proof that David Bowie raped Carol Burnett! -- Christopher Titus
I once went through the dustbin outside David Bowie's house. -- Matthew Bourne
If David Bowie wants, I'll put him in my phone book. -- Mads Mikkelsen
Beastie Boys and David Bowie are two of my favorite artists. -- Anders Holm
David Bowie was awesome the easiest, coolest interview I have ever done. -- Rachel Perry
David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style. -- Lance Loud
His names is David Bowie and he's nineteen. Would yoy like to meet him~? -- Tony Visconti
Being in love, as both Plato and David Bowie have pointed out, is horrible. -- Stefano Benni
If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut. -- Ice T
If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut. -- Ice T
Whatever. Everyone mispronounces my name. And, like, David Bowie was big before I was born, right? -- Avril Lavigne
David Bowie really played with ideas, and iconography and imagery. He's brilliant man. And a gentleman, too. -- Madonna Ciccone
The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork. -- Miguel
A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant. -- Adam Lambert
I love people like Kate Bush and Stevie Nicks and David Bowie - people that project themselves as characters and that contextualizes the music. -- Tamaryn
I think people are just creative, and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan and David Bowie create both music and art. -- Ronnie Wood
I'd like to go for people I admire - I always gravitate towards the people I idolized when I was a teenager: Cher, Diana Ross, and David Bowie. -- RuPaul
I'm not David Bowie. Who are we kidding? At the end of the day, I'm the same person I've always been. I'm Don Garvey's son from up the road. -- Guy Garvey
The title song of David Bowie's 'Young Americans' is one of his handful of classics, a bizarre mixture of social comment, run-on lyric style, English pop and American soul. -- Jon Landau
As a kid, I would've loved to get a tweet from David Bowie or Joan Rivers or Tom Cruise. It's great that you can communicate with people and it's instant. -- Boy George
If anybody won life, David Bowie did, at least as a creative entity in the sense of writing yourself into existence and writing yourself out in such a graceful swoop. -- Babatunde Adebimpe
Prince didn't want to sound like Michael Jackson. Neither of them wanted to sound like Luther Vandross. They didn't want to sound like David Bowie. They were all different, but brilliant. -- Warryn Campbell
David Bowie used to cover loads of people, and there was an element of "David Bowie did it, so we wanted to do it," because we're kind of obsessed [with him]. -- Simon Taylor-Davis
I am impressed by the way Annie Kevans captured the different types of beauties that have been my inspiration and my muses from my grandmother to artists like David Bowie and Boy George. -- Jean Paul Gaultier
I would probably say David Bowie and Prince are the perfect people. They dress feminine/masculine and they're really sexy. Not many people can wear high heels and look sexier than a woman! -- Aino Jawo
If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was more like the 1950s.. and that's the truth. The backdrop was probably Victorian. -- Ricky Gervais
I love all kinds of music. My dad's from London, so he loves David Bowie, the Stones, The Clash. I grew up with that influence while loving poetry and loving all kinds of current music. -- Adam Hicks
I also mixed David Bowie's Young Americans album in 5.1 earlier this year and it will be available very soon. Even the original stereo mixes have been re-mastered and sound amazingly good, better than ever, in fact! -- Tony Visconti
I knew about things like Iggy Pop and The Velvet Underground, weirdly, before I knew about David Bowie. I didn't know what David Bowie was, when I was a kid. I thought he was like Visage. -- Stewart Lee
David Bowie's music is a moving target. Just when you think you got the bullseye, it shifts. And to his credit, on to death, it's still shifting. David Bowie is a moving target, even after he's gone. -- Carlos Alomar
With the groups who asked me to join them - like the Rolling Stones, Spirit, David Bowie, and Blood, Sweat & Tears - I said no right away because I was way too much into my own thing. -- Shuggie Otis
If you look at the history of popular music, the most successful musicians have started out being really marginal and esoteric. The Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Madonna. Prince. Bruce Springsteen. Fleetwood Mac. David Bowie. Public Enemy. Nirvana. -- Moby
I've spent three hours with Snoop Dogg, talking about how he loved [Peaky Blinders series]. And David Bowie loved it. The late Leonard Cohen was a fan. It struck a chord with various people that I didn't think it would. -- Steven Knight
Some references are more important than others. Like the metal stuff. Some people like Motley Crue and some people didn't listen to them at all. So that's why there's New Order and The New Replacements and David Bowie and Public Enemy. -- Steve Pink
I saw Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, which I thought was a masterpiece. Not that long ago, I listened to Blackstar by David Bowie and thought that was a masterpiece. Those are two incredibly talented people who've left their mark with us. -- Kate Bush
I need to do a concert to celebrate David Bowie's electronic music. And in so doing, I'm not taking a step back, I'm taking a step forward and presenting it in its entirety so people can understand this type of visionary. -- Carlos Alomar
David Bowie is kind of the pioneer of glam rock. Not just for music, but just his overall, how he incorporates fashion and other arts into music. And he does a really amazing job about being fearless and that kind of stuff. -- BÃ?RNS
If I can get that DAM trio back together again - "get the band back together" - and put on a concert of David Bowie's electronic music, that's the way I want to remember David, moving forward into the future of music. -- Carlos Alomar
David Bowie is the quintessential English gentleman and, of course, a musical and generational institution. I only played support for him for one night (not a whole tour) but he was incredibly gracious and generous toward me and I've certainly never forgotten it. -- Brooke Fraser
I had a radio show at the local college and I got kicked off the air and banished forever for playing music from the Rocky Horror Picture Show, Alice Cooper, and David Bowie because (quote-unquote) "They were gay." So, things have changed quite a bit. -- Anne Boleyn
I always knew there were vampires, dude,â? heâ??d said. â??Because, you know how thereâ??s people you know who, like, always look the same, even when theyâ??re, like, a hundred years old? Like David Bowie? Thatâ??s because theyâ??re vampires. -- Cassandra Clare
One of my biggest heroes and people I was fortunate enough to be around is David Bowie. I look at his career, and he always had the balls to break things that weren't broken, to step away from something and try something new, at risk of failing. -- Trent Reznor
I love David Bowie and Cher and Diana Ross. I wanted to follow in their footsteps. So I set out to do that in a rock-'n'-roll band in Atlanta, Georgia. That led me to nightclubs and to the sort of Andy Warhol experience of creating a personality. -- RuPaul
I had joined Yes in 1971. I was a classically trained musician who had worked with numerous artists as a session musician. I played on David Bowie's 'Life On Mars,' Cat Stevens's 'Morning Has Broken' and even on some Des O'Connor records, though I kept that quiet. -- Rick Wakeman
When you're dressed up as David Bowie, with your eyebrows completely bleached, and you're doing this kind of strange dance with Paul McCartney while singing "Rebel Rebel" in the middle of the Met ball, and Madonna's looking at you . . . I was just thinking, It's become a bit weird. -- Florence Welch
I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones. -- Imelda May
I'm very curious about David Bowie's new record [2016]. I'm very, very... I'm just incredibly curious, I want to see what's happening with that. I don't really know who else is putting out records, we've had our heads buried working on ours. I haven't really been paying much attention lately. -- Patrick Stump
Jeff [Koons] called me because he'd seen a portrait of David Bowie, at the beginning of the 80s - I've known Jeff for a long time - and he said, Greg, I want to look like a high-profile celebrity, living on the edge. I think that says it all. -- Greg Gorman
When I was growing up in the early '70s and really getting into music, waiting outside the record store for that 45, waiting for a single from The Dead, The Clash, David Bowie, or T-Rex or something to be there. There was something about that that was so special. -- Dave Gahan
My joke is a picture of David Bowie on his balcony in the '70s in a suit in Paris, and unless that's you, I'm not interested. There are very few aesthetic types that I have, and people who look like that are not always necessarily good for me. -- Jen Kirkman
I've been a big believer in musicians turned actor, going back to Sinatra winning the Oscar for 'From Here To Eternity.' David Bowie in 'Man Who Fell to Earth,' Kris Kristofferson's been great in a bunch of films. Liza Minnelli, Barbra Streisand, Mariah Carey, I thought was great in 'Precious. -- Peter Berg
After people like Lennon and Dylan, I think David Bowie brought a very modernistic intelligence and the necessity for change. I think he was completely positive, certainly through one and a half decades of completely overriding influence, in the best of popular music, and I take my bloody hat off to him! -- Roger Meddows Taylor
I'm not someone who can sing anything. And my favorite singers aren't people whose voice you would say is amazing. I'm a big Bob Dylan fan, a huge David Bowie fan. None of those people have orthodox, cabaret voices. These are people where what they're singing about is just as important as how they're singing it. -- Boy George
Davy Jones was the grooviest of the Monkees, which makes him one of the grooviest pop stars who ever existed. He was the best dancer in the Monkees, the Cute One, the one with the coy English accent, the bowl-cut boy-child who shook those cherry-red maracas and always got the girl. He was also the guy who stole David Bowie's original name. -- Rob Sheffield
To women, drummers seem like these adorable, sexy Neanderthals, and lead singers seem mysterious and dangerous. So while the lead singers all want to be David Bowie, floating into parties and being the center of attention, it's the drummers who are in the corner doing keg stands and breaking tables. Usually it's the drummers who get the fun-loving ladies and the singers who get the nutcases. -- Dave Grohl
This is a mad planet," David Bowie said in 1971. "It's doomed to madness. -- David Bowie
David Bowie emerged as a rock star in the late '60s. And as Ken Tucker wrote, "In the face of the hippy era's sincerity, intimacy and generosity, Bowie presented irony, distance and self-absorption. His song 'Changes' announced the arrival of a new counterculture," unquote. -- David Bowie
If I say something about David [Bowie], I get 1000 tweets, if I say something about my business just a few! The more personal, the better. -- Iman Abdulmajid
Hearing that [David] Bowie passed was like you don't really believe it. It's as if the sky shifted a little bit, to remind you it was there. -- Babatunde Adebimpe
[David] Bowie's last album "Blackstar" featured him backed by a jazz quartet. -- David Bowie
[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz. -- David Bowie

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