Famous Quotes

"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 on Age

More quotes about Age

• "Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."

  Mark Twain on Age

• "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."

  Henry Ford on Age

• "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."

  Mark Twain on Age

• "True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."

  Kurt Vonnegut on Age

• "A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."

  Robert Frost on Age

More quotes by David Bowie

• "I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange I never thought I would be."

• "I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents."

• "I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry."

• "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."

• "I'm very at ease, and I like it. 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 rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad!"