| — | David Bowie on The Diamond Dogs tour |
“Aladdin Sane, that’s me having a go at trying to redefine Ziggy, and making him what people wanted. The Ziggy Stardust album told the whole story. There was nothing more to say. And I knew when I was making Aladdin Sane that the bottom had just fallen out of the whole idea. That was a tough period and I felt for the first time and the only time like I was working for somebody else. Yeah, Aladdin Sane was kind of a sellout” — David Bowie
| — | David Bowie on the novel City of Night by John Rechy |
“Mick was the perfect foil for the Ziggy character. He was very much a salt-of-the-earth type, the blunt northerner with a defiantly masculine personality, so that what you got was the old-fashioned yin and yang thing. As a rock duo, I thought we were every bit as good as Mick and Keith…” — David Bowie
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| — | David Bowie on “Bewlay Brothers” (Source: bowiequotes) |
| — | David Bowie |
“I met this man who was the living dead. Yellow in complexion, a wig on that was the wrong color, little glasses. I extended my hand and the guy retired, so I thought, ‘The guy doesn’t like flesh, obviously he’s reptilian’. He produced a camera an took a picture of me. And I tried to make small talk with him, and it wasn’t getting anywhere. But then he saw my yellow shoes. He then started a whole rap about shoe design and that broke the ice” — David Bowie about Andy Warhol.
