David Bowie > Quotes

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

“And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations.
They're quite aware of what they're going through.

- Changes”
― 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

“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

“I'm a real self-educated kind of guy. I read voraciously. Every book I ever bought, I have. I can't throw it away. It's physically impossible to leave my hand! Some of them are in warehouses. I've got a library that I keep the ones I really really like. I look around my library some nights and I do these terrible things to myself--I count up the books and think, how long I might have to live and think, 'F@#%k, I can't read two-thirds of these books.' It overwhelms me with sadness."
--David Bowie, quoted in the Daily Beast in a 2002 interview with Bob Guccione, Jr.”
― David Bowie

“I'm a born librarian with a sex drive”
― David Bowie

“Turn and face the strange changes.”
― David Bowie, Changes Sheet Music

“What is the quality you most like in a man?
The ability to return books.”
― David Bowie

“Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming”
― David Bowie

“Speak in extremes, it'll save you time. ”
― David Bowie

“There's a terror in knowing what the world is about”
― David Bowie

“The truth is, of course, that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.”
― 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'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

“We can be heroes just for one day”
― David Bowie Heroes

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

“I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings...”
― 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.”
― David Bowie

“Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person you always should have been.”
― David Bowie

“If it works, it's out of date.”
― David Bowie

“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

“The moment you know you know you know.”
― David Bowie

“Don't let me hear you say life takes you nowhere, angel.

- Golden Years”
― David Bowie

“And you,
You can be mean
And I,
I'll drink all the time
'Cause we're lovers,
And that is a fact
Yes we're lovers,
And that is that

- "Heroes"”
― David Bowie

“I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man
Just a mortal with potential of a superman
I'm living on.

-Quicksand”
― David Bowie, The Songs Of David Bowie

“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
(...)
This way or no way
You know I'll be free
Just like that bluebird
Now, ain't that just like me?

- Lazarus”
― David Bowie

“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

“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

“It's not the side-effects of the cocaine - I'm thinking that it must be love.

It's too late to be grateful,
It's too late to be hateful,
It's too late to be late again,
The European canon is here.

- Station to Station”
― David Bowie