David Robert Jones, known professionally as David Bowie was born on the 8th of January, 1947 in Brixton, London, United Kingdom. He was an English rock star, a leading figure in the music industry and is regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century.
David Bowie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996. During his lifetime, his record sales, estimated at over 100 million records worldwide, which made him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. The music icon died on January 10, 2016 in Manhattan, New York, United States. Two days after his 69th birthday.
In this article, you will find a collection of famous David Bowie quotes and sayings.
50 David Bowie Quotes About Life, Music & Art
“I’m always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don’t even take what I am seriously.” ― David Bowie Quote
“The truth is, of course, that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.” ― David Bowie Quote
“Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you’re pretty much on the way out…” ― David Bowie Quote
“I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.” ― David Bowie Quote
“I’m not a prophet or a stone aged man. Just a mortal with potential of a superman. I’m living on.― David Bowie Quote
“Cause I’d rather stay here With all the madmen Than perish with the sadmen roaming free. And I’d rather play here With all the madmen For I’m quite content they’re all as sane as me.” ― David Bowie Quote
“Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one’s emotional plane.” ― David Bowie Quote
“If I could control tomorrow’s haze, The darkened shore wouldn’t bother me, If I can’t control the web we weave, My life will be lost in the fallen leaves…” ― David Bowie Quote
“Strangely, some songs you really don’t want to write. I didn’t like writing ‘Heathen’. There was something so ominous and final about it. It was early in the morning, the sun was rising and through the windows I could see two deer grazing down below in the field. In the distance a car was driving slowly past the reservoir and these words were just streaming out and there were tears running down my face. But I couldn’t stop, they just flew out. It’s an odd feeling, like something else is guiding you, although forcing your hand is more like it.” ― David Bowie Quote
“If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.” ― David Bowie Quote
“My brother was one of the bigger influences in my life, in as much as he told me I didn’t have to read the choice of books that I was recommended at school, and that I could go out to the library and go and choose my own, and sort of introduced me to authors that I wouldn’t have read.probably. You know, the usual things like the Jack Kerouacs, the Ginsbergs, the ee Cummings and stuff.” ― David Bowie Quote
“A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.” ― David Bowie Quote
“The only art I’ll ever study is stuff that I can steal from.” ― David Bowie Quote
“Written in pain, written in awe By a puzzled man who questioned What we were here for”― David Bowie Quote
“The wrong words make you listen in this criminal world.”― David Bowie Quote
“It’s a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there’s a pattern of stri*pping down and building back up again throughout my life. I guess that’s how some of us conduct our lives.” ― David Bowie Quote
“I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlour drinking milk shakes cold and long Smiling and waving and looking so fine don’t think you knew you were in this song.” ― David Bowie Quote
“I’m a person who can take on the guises of people I meet. I’m a collector, and I collect personalities and ideas.” ― David Bowie Quote
“And when the clothes are strewn, Don’t be afraid of the room. Touch the fullness of her bre*ast, Feel the love of her care*ss… She will be your living end.” ― David Bowie Quote
“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 Quote
“Религия для людей, которые боятся ада. Духовность для людей, которые там побывали. ”“Religion is for people who are afraid of going to hell, spirituality is for those who’ve been there” ― David Bowie Quote
“This is a mad planet,” David Bowie said in 1971. “It’s doomed to madness.” ― David Bowie Quote
“Some make you sing and some make you scream, One makes you wish that you’d never been seen. But there’s a shop on the corner that’s selling papier-mache, Making bullet-proof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay. If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.” ― David Bowie Quote
“All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author, There is no authoritative active voice. There are only multiple readings.” ― David Bowie Quote
“Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.” ― David Bowie Quote
“I’m looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I play everybody.” ― David Bowie Quote
“I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.” ― David Bowie Quote
“I’ll paint you moments of gold, I’ll spin you Valentine evenings…”― David Bowie Quote
“As you get older the questions come down to two or three. How long have I got and what am I gonna do with the time I’ve got left?” ― David Bowie Quote
“Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.” ― David Bowie Quote
“On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.”― David Bowie Quote
“I rate Morrissey (Steven Patrick Morrissey) as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he`s up there with Bryan Ferry.” ― David Bowie Quote
“Sometimes I don’t feel as if I’m a person at all. I’m just a collection of other people’s ideas.” ― David Bowie Quote
“It’s always time to question what has become standard and established.” ― David Bowie Quote
“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!” ― David Bowie Quote
“He always gets the birthday shi*t, and nobody even knows I got born. Jimmy Page was born on the ninth, you can make something out of that. But the eighth?”― David Bowie Quote
“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 Quote
“I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.”― David Bowie Quote
“An dem Tag, an dem du denkst, du kannst nicht mehr besser werden, fängst du an, immer den gleichen Song zu spielen.” ― David Bowie Quote
“But the film is a saddening bore, ’cause I wrote it ten times or more.” ― David Bowie Quote
“And the stars look very different today.” ― David Bowie Quote
“Look up here, I’m in heaven I’ve got scars that can’t be seen I’ve got drama, can’t be stolen Everybody knows me now” ― David Bowie Quote
“David Thomas: What do you think is the worst crime that could possibly be committed? What is the crime that offends you most?
David Bowie: Seeing a man humble himself in his capacity as a worker to somebody else, and having to have that accepted as a given situation.” ― David Bowie Quote
“I don’t know how many times someone has come up to me and said, “Hey, Lets dance!”. I hate dancing. God, it’s stupid.” ― David Bowie Quote
“Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person you always should have been.” ― David Bowie Quote
“Make the best of every moment. We’re not evolving. We’re not going anywhere.” ― David Bowie Quote
“Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I’ve seen on some of the songs that I’ve written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.” ― David Bowie Quote
“And I don’t care what anybody says; I like doing it, and it’s what I shall continue to do” ― David Bowie Quote
“You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.” ― David Bowie Quote
“Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.” ― David Bowie Quote
20 Short David Bowie Quotes
“It’s only forever, not long at all” ― David Bowie Quote
“Turn and face the strange changes.” ― David Bowie Quote
“Speak in extremes, it’ll save you time. ” ― David Bowie Quote
“I’m a born librarian with a s3x drive” ― David Bowie Quote
“Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming” ― David Bowie Quote
“I’m an instant star, just add water.” ― David Bowie Quote
“I can ask for cigarettes in every language” ― David Bowie Quote
“No more free steps to heaven.”― David Bowie Quote
“I can see light at the end of the tunnel and it isn’t a train.” ― David Bowie Quote
“There’s a taste in my mouth and it’s no taste at all.” ― David Bowie Quote
“I have someone who loves me for me. Seriously, it REALLY helps!”― David Bowie Quote
“I’m afraid of Americans.” ― David Bowie Quote
“I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.” ― David Bowie Quote
“When I looked in her eyes they were blue but nobody home.” ― David Bowie Quote
“I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.” ― David Bowie Quote
“The moment you know you know you know.” ― David Bowie Quote
“Don’t let me hear you say life takes you nowhere, angel.― David Bowie Quote
“If it works, it’s out of date.” ― David Bowie Quote
“We can be heroes just for one day” ― David Bowie Quote
“There’s a terror in knowing what the world is about” ― David Bowie Quote