Introduction
David Bowie Quotes | David Robert Jones born on 8 January 1947, known professionally as David Bowie. He was an English singer-songwriter and actor.
His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, and his music and stagecraft had a significant impact on popular music.
He studied art, music and design before embarking on a professional career as a musician in 1963.
He reached his peak commercial success in 1983 with Let’s Dance: its title track topped both the UK and US charts.
Awards
During his lifetime, his record sales, estimated at over 100 million records worldwide, made him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. In the UK, he was awarded ten platinum, eleven gold and eight silver album certifications, and released 11 number-one albums. In the US, he received five platinum and nine gold certifications. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.
On 10 January 2016, Bowie died of liver cancer in his New York City apartment.[419] He had been diagnosed 18 months earlier but had not made his condition public
David Bowie Creativity Quotes Life
“I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.”
“The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.”
– David Bowie
“Fame itself… doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.”
– David Bowie
“Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.”
– David Bowie
“Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it’s like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You’d better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that’s really the only unique situation that’s going to be left.”
– David Bowie
“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
“Glam really did plant seeds for a new identity. I think a lot of kids needed that that sense of reinvention. Kids learned that however crazy you may think it is, there is a place for what you want to do and who you want to be.”
– David Bowie
“I’m not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.”
– David Bowie
“All my big mistakes are when I try to second guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.”
– David Bowie
“I knew that I was ‘interesting’ at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage.”
– David Bowie
Famous David Bowie Quotes Love
“Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.”
– David Bowie
“I’m very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a familyoriented 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
“For me, often, there’s such a cloud of melancholia about knowing I’m going to have to leave my daughter on her own. I don’t know what age that is going to be, thank God. It just doubles me up in grief.”
– David Bowie
“I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.”
– David Bowie
“What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That’s what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.”
– David Bowie
“The humanists’ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.”
– David Bowie
“Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.”
– David Bowie
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?”
– David Bowie
“I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.”
– David Bowie
David Bowie Famous Quotes About Life
“Art was, seriously, the only thing I’d ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.”
– David Bowie
“That’s the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true… Hell, don’t pose me that one.”
– David Bowie
“I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.”
– David Bowie
“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
“I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.”
– David Bowie
“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
“I suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.”
– David Bowie
David Bowie Inspirational Quotes
“I couldn’t have written things like ‘Low’ and ‘Heroes,’ those particular albums, if it hadn’t have been for Berlin and the kind of atmosphere I felt there.”
– David Bowie
“Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.”
– David Bowie
“I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.”
– David Bowie
“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
“My father worked for a children’s home called Dr. Barnardo’s Homes. They’re a charity.”
– David Bowie
“I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original.”
– David Bowie
“I’m not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I’m living on.”
– David Bowie
“I’m an instant star. Just add water and stir.”
– David Bowie
“As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn’t really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn’t have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself.”
– David Bowie
“I reinvented my image so many times that I’m in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.”
– David Bowie
“I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.”
– David Bowie
Famous David Bowie Quotes About Life, Success
“The truest form of any form of revolutionary Left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E.E. Cummings, & Ginsberg’s period. Excuse me, but that’s where it was at.”
– David Bowie
“Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.”
– David Bowie
“It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.”
– David Bowie
“I’ve always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I’ve heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last.”
– David Bowie
“An armchair Jungian would say the whole thing is about my own ongoing spiritual search. My interior life has always been one of trying to find a spiritual link, maybe because I’m from a family of separate religious philosophies: Protestant and Catholic.”
– David Bowie
“Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.”
– David Bowie
“The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.”
– David Bowie
David Bowie Motivational Quotes
“I still derive immense pleasure from remembering how many hodcarrying brickies were encouraged to put on lurex tights and mince up and down the high street, having been assured by knowitalls like me that a smidgen of blusher really attracted the birds.”
– David Bowie
“You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.”
– David Bowie
“When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.”
– David Bowie
“Age doesn’t bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It’s the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.”
– David Bowie
“What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.”
– David Bowie
“I’m always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don’t even take what I am seriously.”
– David Bowie
“I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.”
– David Bowie
“All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.”
– David Bowie
“Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It’s because I’m not quite an atheist and it worries me. There’s that little bit that holds on: ‘Well, I’m almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.'”
– David Bowie
“Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.”
– David Bowie
“With a suit, always wear big British shoes, the ones with large welts. There’s nothing worse than dainty little Italian jobs at the end of the leg line.”
– David Bowie
Interesting David Bowie Quotes Life
“Searching for music is like searching for God. They’re very similar. There’s an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don’t exist.”
– David Bowie
“The Internet carries the flag of being subversive and possibly rebellious and chaotic, nihilistic.”
– David Bowie
“I think in the ’70s that there was a general feeling of chaos, a feeling that the idea of the ’60s as ‘ideal’ was a misnomer. Nothing seemed ideal anymore. Everything seemed in between.”
– David Bowie
“I’m an early riser. I get up between five and six, have coffee, and read for a couple of hours before everyone else gets up.”
– David Bowie
“There’s a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I’m affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn’t want to leave. He likes it very much.”
– David Bowie
“I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I thought, ‘Fuck that. I want to be a superhuman.”
– David Bowie
“There’s a terror in knowing what the world is about”
– David Bowie
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?”
– David Bowie
“Talking about art is like dancing about architecture.”
– David Bowie
“Speak in extremes, it’ll save you time.”
– David Bowie
“No more free steps to heaven.”
– David Bowie
“The only art I’ll ever study is stuff that I can steal from.”
– David Bowie
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“You can neither win nor lose if you don’t run the race.”
– David Bowie
“It’s always time to question what has become standard and established.”
– David Bowie
“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
“I’m an instant star. Just add water and stir.”
– David Bowie
“Don’t let me hear you say life takes you nowhere, angel.”
– David Bowie
“I don’t care what anybody says; I like doing it, and it’s what I shall continue to do.”
– David Bowie
“Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.”
– David Bowie
“I’ll paint you moments of gold, I’ll spin you Valentine evenings…”
– David Bowie
“People have attention spans of five seconds and as much depth as a glass of water.”
– David Bowie
“Fame itself… doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.”
– David Bowie
“I’m not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I’m living on.”
– David Bowie
“I’m a born librarian with a s*x drive”
– David Bowie
“We can be “heroes” just for one day.”
– David Bowie
“Nobody reads anymore, nobody goes out and looks and explores the society and culture they were brought up in.”
– David Bowie
“I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.”
– David Bowie
“Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you’re pretty much on the way out…”
– David Bowie
“If it works, it’s out of date.”
– David Bowie
Famous David Bowie Quotes On Life
“I suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture I was living in.”
– David Bowie
“I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.”
– David Bowie
“I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.”
– David Bowie
“I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.”
– David Bowie
“All my big mistakes are when I try to second guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.”
– David Bowie
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”
– David Bowie
“Robert Johnson only had one album’s worth of work as his legacy. That’s all that life allowed him.”
– David Bowie
“I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.”
– David Bowie
“Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.”
– David Bowie
“Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.”
– David Bowie
“I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.”
– David Bowie
“I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.”
– David Bowie
“The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.”
– David Bowie
“I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.”
– David Bowie
“I’m an awful liar.”
– David Bowie
“All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity.”
– David Bowie
“Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.”
– David Bowie
Some More David Bowie Quotes
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?”
– David Bowie
“I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody’s talents.”
– David Bowie
“Speak in extremes, it’ll save you time. ”
– David Bowie
“I’m an instant star. Just add water and stir.”
– David Bowie
“I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.”
– David Bowie
“Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true.”
– David Bowie
“I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way.”
– David Bowie
“Age doesn’t bother me.”
– David Bowie
“I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way.”
– David Bowie
“I’m well past the age where I’m acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access.”
– David Bowie
“Now I realize that from ’72 through to about ’76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn’t have been more rock star.”
– David Bowie
“Fame is a very luxuriant mental hospital.”
– David Bowie
“I would love to feel that what I did actually changed the fabric of music.”
– David Bowie
“I have a certain niche that I work in. A lot of it has to be about alienation. Being on the outside of things. That tends to be where I feel more comfortable as a writer.”
– David Bowie
“Trust nothing but your own experience.”
– David Bowie
“I’d love people to believe that I really had great haircuts.”
– David Bowie
“What a disappointing 21st century this has been so far.”
– David Bowie
“Gentleness clears the soul, love cleans the mind and makes it free.”
– David Bowie
David Bowie Quotes On Life, Love
“I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much.”
– David Bowie
“Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you’re pretty much on the way out.”
– David Bowie
“I’m rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it’s no longer his. I just see what people make of it.”
– David Bowie
“I’m always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don’t even take what I am seriously.”
– David Bowie
“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
“There’s a terror in knowing what the world is about.”
– David Bowie
“The words just jolly it along. It’s always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.”
– David Bowie
“There’s a taste in my mouth and it’s no taste at all.”
– David Bowie
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”
– David Bowie
“The moment you know you know you know.”
– David Bowie
“Every time I’ve made a radical change it’s helped me feel buoyant as an artist.”
– David Bowie
“Turn and face the strange changes.”
– David Bowie
“You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.”
– David Bowie
“The only art I’ll ever study is stuff that I can steal from.”
– David Bowie
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