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“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

“The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”
― Nat King Cole

“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

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

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

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

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

“If it works, it's out of date.”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

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

“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

“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

“If you took a couple of David Bowies and stuck one of the David Bowies on the top of the other David Bowie, then attached another David Bowie to the end of each of the arms of the upper of the first two David Bowies and wrapped the whole business up in a dirty beach robe you would then have something which didn't exactly look like John Watson, but which those who knew him would find hauntingly familiar.”
― Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

“I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.”
― David Bowie

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

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

- Golden Years”
― David Bowie

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

“Keep your 'lectric eye on me babe
Put your ray gun to my head
Press your space face close to mine, love
Freak out in a moonage daydream, oh yeah!

- Moonage Daydream”
― David Bowie

“No more free steps to heaven.

- It's No Game”
― David Bowie

“Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one’s emotional plane.”
― David Bowie

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

“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

“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.

- Sweet Thing”
― David Bowie

“David [Bowie] quietly tells me, ‘You know, I’ve had so much sex and drugs that I can’t believe I’m still alive,’ and I loudly tell him, ‘You know, I’ve had SO LITTLE sex and drugs that I can’t believe I’m still alive.”
― Morrissey, Autobiography

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

“There's a taste in my mouth and it's no taste at all.

- Queen Bitch”
― David Bowie

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

“If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.”
― Ice-T