Bowie Quotes

I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12. ~ David Bowie

The name Zahra was to have been lman's own name at birth, but a senior member of the family changed it to lman at the last minute. ~ David Bowie

I gotta friend who spends his life, stabbing my picture with a bowie knife. Dreams of strangling me with a scarf, when my name comes up he pretends to barf. ~ Bob Dylan

For here, am I sitting in a tin can, far above the world. Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do ... Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles, I'm feeling very still - and I think my spaceship knows which way to go. Tell my wife I love her very much. ~ David Bowie

He said 'My kingdom is not of this world.' So did Bowie. It tapped into the whole Catholic idea of creating your own saints, finding icons of divinity in the mundane. As a religion, Bowieism didn't seem so different from Catholicism - the hemlines were just a little higher. ~ Rob Sheffield

When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn't live past 30. ~ David Bowie

You can't put down anybody. You can just try and understand. The emphasis shouldn't be on revolution, it should be on communication. Because it's just going to get more uptight. The more the revolution goes on, and there will be a civil war sooner or later. ~ David Bowie

Prince didn't want to sound like Michael Jackson. Neither of them wanted to sound like Luther Vandross. They didn't want to sound like David Bowie. They were all different, but brilliant. ~ Warryn Campbell

My joke is a picture of David Bowie on his balcony in the '70s in a suit in Paris, and unless that's you, I'm not interested. There are very few aesthetic types that I have, and people who look like that are not always necessarily good for me. ~ Jen Kirkman

When I was about 13, 14 - 13, I would carry a magic marker with me everywhere I went so I could write the word "Bowie" on everything that wasn't mine. ~ RuPaul

I would drive to gigs in my tiny little Fiat. I would shoot up and down the M1 to play at various places. ~ David Bowie

What I said was Britain was ready for another Hitler, which is quite a different thing to saying it needs another Hitler. I stand by that opinion - in fact I was ahead of my time in voicing it. There are in Britain right now parallels with the rise of the Nazi Party in pre-war Germany. A demoralised nation whose empire had disintegrated." Two years later, Margaret Thatcher was elected.
- Quoting David Bowie from 1977 ~ Mark Paytress

I have seen purer liqors, better segars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier women courtesans here in San Francisco than in any other place I have ever visited. ~ Hinton Rowan Helper

Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression? ~ David Bowie

Finally, words cannot speak of music; they cannot elucidate nor illuminate. Both sounds enter through the ears, but only music travels throughout and animates the whole body. David Bowie has always known this. ~ Uncredited 'Space Oddity' Liner Notes

I never heard so many kids talk about just doing anything to be famous. I mean, yeah, fame is part of the deal when you're a kid and you think, I wanna go into music, but everybody that I knew was really doing it because of their love for it. I don't see so much of that anymore. ~ David Bowie

I had a fantasy that i'd drift up to Scotland and spend my life as a faux bodhisattua. ~ David Bowie

If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.

- Sweet Thing ~ David Bowie

A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant. ~ Adam Lambert

When Bowie yelps that he could do better than that, I hear another young person stuck somewhere, looking out of the window and imagining how much better they would invent the world, if they were just given the chance to lay their hands on the machinery. If they could just bust into the engine room for twenty-four hours with a toolbox. ~ Caitlin Moran

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 think people are 'just creative,' and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan and David Bowie create both music and art. ~ Ronnie Wood

I had enormous self-image problems and very low self-esteem, which I hid behind obsessive writing and performing. It's exactly what I do now, except I enjoy it now. I'm not driven like I was in my twenties. I was driven to get through life very quickly. ~ David Bowie

Secret thinker sometimes listening aloud. ~ David Bowie

Have an objective to give your bender a theme. For instance, stalking and killing a wild pig with a bowie knife. ~ Hunter S. Thompson

It's our turf," the younger woman barked.
"Actually it's my turf."
The thugs spun to me.
"Let's see . . . You're hassling people in my territory, so you owe me a fee. A couple of fingers ought to do it. Do we have a volunteer?"
The small thug pulled a bowie knife from a sheath on his waist.
I kept coming. "That's a mistake."
The thug crouched down. He clenched his knife, like he was drowning and it was a straw that would pull him out. A little crazy light danced in his eyes. "Come on, whore. Come on."
The oldest bluff in the book: get a crazy glimmer in your eyes, look like you're ready to fight, and the other guy might back off. Heh.
"That might work better for you if you held the knife properly. You were doing okay until you pulled the blade. Now I know that you have no clue how to use it and I'll have to chop your hand off and shove that knife up your ass just to teach you a lesson. Nothing personal. I have a reputation to uphold."
I pulled Slayer out. I had years of practice to back me up and I made the draw fast.
The two bravos behind the knife-wielding thug backed away.
I looked at Slayer's blade. "Well, check this out. Mine is bigger. Let's go, knife-master. I don't have all day. ~ Ilona Andrews

In your fear, seek only peace. In your fear, seek only love. ~ David Bowie

I'm a phallus in pigtails, and there's blood on my nose, and my tissue is rotting where the rats chew my bones. And my eye sockets empty, see nothing but pain, I keep having this brainstorm about twelve times a day. ~ David Bowie

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He's very quick. ~ Brian Eno

In fact, in Europe, I'm more kind of this bloke what writes lots of stuff. ~ 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 cannon is here. ~ David Bowie

I would like to believe that people knew what they were fighting for and why they wanted a revolution, and exactly what it was within that they didn't like. ~ David Bowie

I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking. ~ David Bowie

One thing that has really influenced me with Bowie where I've taken an approach from him is how he changes from album to album and has always modified his sound and his appearance. I think that's an important thing. ~ Scott Weiland

You can neither win nor lose if you don't run the race ~ David Bowie

Star"

Tony went to fight in Belfast
Rudi stayed at home to starve
I could make it all worthwhile
as a rock & roll star
Bevan tried to change the nation
Sonny wants to turn the world, well he can tell you that
he tried
I could make a transformation as a rock & roll star

[CHORUS (x2)]
So inviting - so enticing to play the part
I could play the wild mutation
as a rock & roll star
I could do with the money
I'm so wiped out with things as they are
I'd send my photograph to my honey - and I'd c'mon like
a regular superstar

I could fall asleep at night
as a rock & roll star
I could fall in love all right
as a rock & roll star ~ David Bowie

Shoot you down. Bang bang. ~ David Bowie

I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I'm proud of what I've done. In fact it's been a good ride. ~ David Bowie

Some references are more important than others. Like the metal stuff. Some people like Motley Crue and some people didn't listen to them at all. So that's why there's New Order and The New Replacements and David Bowie and Public Enemy. ~ Steve Pink

I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings ... ~ David Bowie

Good grief," said Merlin. "You look like the bastard child of
Dumbledore and David Bowie. No, sorry, Dumbledore and Ziggy
Stardust. ~ FayJay

I'm not David Bowie. Who are we kidding? At the end of the day, I'm the same person I've always been. I'm Don Garvey's son from up the road. ~ Guy Garvey

The name Bowie just appealed to me when I was younger. I was into a kind of heavy philosophy thing when I was 16 years old, and I wanted a truism about cutting through the lies and all that. ~ David Bowie

Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano. ~ David Bowie

A career of nearly 40 years, is not very long. ~ David Bowie

David Bowie is detached from everything, yet open to everything; stripped of the notion that both art and life are impossible. ~ Morrissey

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

And the stars look very different today. ~ David Bowie

If you look at the history of popular music, the most successful musicians have started out being really marginal and esoteric. The Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Madonna. Prince. Bruce Springsteen. Fleetwood Mac. David Bowie. Public Enemy. Nirvana. ~ Moby

There are two types of men when it comes to approaching lone pretty women in bars. The shit type and the don't-have-the-balls-to-be-a-shit jealous type, and I was the latter and in situations like this the prey becomes the hunter and it's all just an under-stocked meat market trading in egos, tits and shame. ~ John Bowie

Music is very important. It's important as a tool for learning, it can be a tool for healing, it can be no telling what, as long as we remain free to be able to create the music, to be able to experiment and to really research, and to really get time to develop the music. ~ Lester Bowie

I grew up as a kid looking at artists like David Bowie and Prince; I really admired them. ~ Tessa Thompson

You can establish a presence on the internet; you can have just as much of a presence as a major company or anyone else. ~ Lester Bowie

Fame puts you there where things are hollow. ~ David Bowie

I'd rather stay here with all the madmen than perish with the sadmen roaming free. ~ David Bowie

Absolutely. I understand that Miss Piggy is willing to serve as Queen of Scotland if there is a split. So you may want to guard your castles.

Kermit the frog's response to the question on if he agreed with David Bowie on whether Scotland should remain as part of Britain ~ Kermit The Frog

Make the best of every moment. We're not evolving. We're not going anywhere. ~ David Bowie

Is it Nice in your snowstorm- freezing your brain? Do you think that your face looks the same? ~ 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

In my madness I see your face in mine. ~ David Bowie

From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience. ~ David Bowie

I am a big David Bowie fan. ~ Kristen Wiig

… what makes an object beautiful has nothing to do with its usefulness or its exchange value. ~ Andrew Bowie

And it's always the same kind of artist, I think, who has more enjoyment being slightly on the outside of things, who doesn't want to be sucked into the tyranny of the mainstream. Because once you get sucked into that, you're dead as an artist. ~ David Bowie

The twenty-seventh was Blackstar, or simply (the symbol of blackstar) - a suggestion that the A-Z was over, but there was more to come, beyond the known alphabet, beyond ordinary language; a second set of letters, communications, a rebirth. Inside the A to Z, and all the possible combinations of songs, styles, secrets, themes, discoveries, redirections, emotional climaxes, sheer drama, tension, relief, beauty, there was all you needed to know in order to construct and understand the language of Bowie
(re morley's alphabet of bowie albums) ~ Paul Morley

I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me because it's not their profession to do that. ~ David Bowie

I was always accused of being cold and unfeeling. It was because I was intimidated about touching people. ~ David Bowie

I think Mustique is Duchampian - it will always provide an endless source of delight. ~ David Bowie

Beastie Boys and David Bowie are two of my favorite artists. ~ Anders Holm

In his day, liking someone like David Bowie would have been the domain of degenerate officers in black and white movies about nazis. ~ Jonathan Goldstein

Elvis is English, and climbs the hills. Can't tell the bullshit from the lies. ~ David Bowie

We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society. ~ Lester Bowie

I could imagine at a certain age, when I have no vocal cords left, that I would find a young man who could sing my parts for me. But I don't see why I would stop. ~ David Bowie

The Americans at heart are a pure and noble people; things to them are in black and white. It's either 'rawk' or it's not. We Brits putter around in the grey area. ~ David Bowie

I love David Bowie and Cher and Diana Ross. I wanted to follow in their footsteps. So I set out to do that in a rock-'n'-roll band in Atlanta, Georgia. That led me to nightclubs and to the sort of Andy Warhol experience of creating a personality. ~ RuPaul

I went to glam shows and was inspired by Bowie. ~ Jay Gordon

[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz. ~ David Bowie

The best DJs in the world know how to pull in music from all over the place and make it work as a cohesive whole. ~ David Bowie

You would think that anyone on a major label would be doing something, but when you speak of major label that means something to maybe a big pop star that might be getting some sort of benefit from the major. But we still don't get anything. ~ Lester Bowie

I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing. ~ David Bowie

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

I'll stick with you baby for a thousand years. ~ David Bowie

I've always been very chauvinistic, even in my boy-obsessed days. But I was always a gentleman. I alwaysd treated my boys like real ladies. Always escorted them properly and, in fact, I suppose if I were a lot older - like 40 or 50 - I'd be a wonderful sugar daddy to some little queen down in Kensington. I'd have a houseboy named Richard to order around. ~ David Bowie

Speak in extremes, it'll save you time. ~ David Bowie

She will be your living end.

- Lady Grinning Soul ~ David Bowie

There are times when I prefer a cerebral moment with an artist, and I'll just enjoy the wit of a Picabia or a Duchamp. It amuses me that they thought that what they did would be a good way of making art. ~ 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

I'll ruin everything you are, I'll give you television. ~ David Bowie

When I was growing up in the early '70s and really getting into music, waiting outside the record store for that 45, waiting for a single from The Dead, The Clash, David Bowie, or T-Rex or something to be there. There was something about that that was so special. ~ Dave Gahan

You'd like to know me well, but I've got things inside my head that even I can't face. ~ 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

If I put faith in medication, if I can smile a crooked smile, if I can talk on television, if I can walk an empty mile. ~ David Bowie

My mother was a housewife. Both from - well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of England. And my mother came from a very working class. ~ David Bowie

To be taken seriously about doing something creative and probably travel a lot. That was my motivation. I knew I was good, I knew I could write. I also knew you could get laid really easily. ~ David Bowie

See the mice in their million hordes
From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads. ~ David Bowie

I was born in London 1947, after the war. A real wartime baby. I went to school in Brixton, and then I moved up to Yorkshire, which is in the north of England. I lived on the farms up there. ~ David Bowie

I went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both classes, so I have a pretty fair idea of how people live and why they do it. ~ David Bowie

David Bowie heard about the fire and called from Switzerland. He asked me to come and stay with him. I said, 'No, I'll be fine,' but it was a beautiful gesture from a lovely guy. ~ Molly Meldrum

Listen to me, don't listen to me. Talk to me, don't talk to me. ~ David Bowie

I have seen purer liquors, better segars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier courtesans here in San Francisco than in any other place I have ever visited; and it is my unbiased opinion that California can and does furnish the best bad things that are available in America. ~ Hinton Helper