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Quotes by David Bowie - (30 quotes)

David Bowie - From the Aging category:

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)

David Bowie - From the Books category:

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)

David Bowie - From the Change category:

Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist. (David Bowie)

David Bowie - From the Creativity category:

...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)

David Bowie - From the Desire category:

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. (David Bowie)

David Bowie - From the Eccentricity category:

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity... (David Bowie)

David Bowie - From the Ego category:

-Quicksand - Hunky Dory...
I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on. (David Bowie)

David Bowie - From the Emotion category:

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)

David Bowie - From the Expression category:

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)

David Bowie - From the Failure category:

The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation. (David Bowie)

David Bowie - From the Fame category:

I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir. (David Bowie)

David Bowie - From the Fame category:

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them. (David Bowie)

David Bowie - From the Fear category:

There's a terror in knowing what the world is about. (David Bowie)

David Bowie - From the Future category:

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming. (David Bowie)

David Bowie - From the Humour category:

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously. (David Bowie)

David Bowie - From the Journey category:

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time. (David Bowie)

David Bowie - From the Knowledge category:

The moment you know you know you know. (David Bowie)

David Bowie - From the Language category:

I can ask for cigarettes in every language. (David Bowie)

David Bowie - From the Love category:

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. (David Bowie)

David Bowie - From the Memory category:

It's odd but even when I was a kid, I would write about 'old and other times' as though I had a lot of years behind me. Now I do, so there is a difference in the weight of memory. (David Bowie)

David Bowie - From the Music category:

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)

David Bowie - From the Renewal category:

I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman. (David Bowie)

David Bowie - From the Taste category:

There's a taste in my mouth and it's no taste at all. (David Bowie)

David Bowie - From the Tradition category:

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece. (David Bowie)

David Bowie - From the Unknowns category:

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring. (David Bowie)

David Bowie - From the Unknowns category:

I kind of miss that "becoming" stage, as most times you really don't know what's around the corner. Now, of course, I've kind of knocked on the door and heard a muffled answer. Nevertheless, I still don't know what the voice is saying, or even what language it's in. (David Bowie)

David Bowie - From the Windows category:

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... (David Bowie)

David Bowie - From the Wonder category:

Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out... (David Bowie)

David Bowie - From the Work category:

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)

David Bowie - From the Writing category:

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 will play everybody. (David Bowie)