“We’re confident people will take to us, because although the camp image has already been established by people like Bowie and Bolan we are taking it to another level. The concept of Queen is to be regal and majestic. Glamour is part of us and we want to be dandy. We want to shock and be outrageous i…”— Freddie Mercury, queenarchives.com
“Everyone knows David Bowie now, but I bet he was pretty underground in the ’70s.”— Julian Casablancas, vulture.com
“It wasn’t that he was out of breath. He was, like, hyperventilating in a way. Like, getting his energy up to sing this, to deliver this song. He was quite stoked. I like to say ‘in the zone.’ And I could see him, through the window, that he was really feeling it.””— Tony VIsconti, amazon.com
“I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.”— Iggy Pop, rollingstone.com
“I'm not saying that David Bowie was holding the fabric of the universe together, but *gestures broadly at everything*”— Katie Loewy, twitter.com