David Bowie Quotes

Iconic musician, singer, and actor, known for his trailblazing contributions to the world of music and art.

When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.

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.

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.

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.

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.

My father worked for a children's home called Dr. ... -David Bowie

My father worked for a children's home called Dr. Barnardo's Homes. They're a charity.

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This quote mentions the speaker's father's involvement in working for a children's home called Dr. Barnardo's Homes, which is a charitable organization. It highlights the importance of caring for and supporting children who may not have a traditional family or home environment, emphasizing the charitable work conducted to provide a sense of home and care for those in need.

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

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.

What I like to do is try to make a difference with... -David Bowie

What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home - I think in those days we called them arguments - about who was right and who was wrong.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.

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The quote humorously suggests that achieving fame can happen quickly and easily, as if it were a simple process of mixing ingredients together.

There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

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This quote reflects the speaker's desire to demonstrate the enduring and impactful nature of music. They aim to show that music can provide solace, inspiration, and sustenance to individuals during difficult times or challenges.

Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation... about where you fit in society.

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.

Dance music is no longer a simple Donna Summer beat. It's become a whole language that I find fascinating and exciting. Eventually, it will lose the dance tag and join the fore of rock.

I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.

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.

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.

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.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don't agree with... -David Bowie

I change my mind a lot. I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented 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!

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrit... -David Bowie

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

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The quote suggests that fame has the ability to diminish the qualities or characteristics that make a person interesting or unique, reducing them to a state of mediocrity or conformity.

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.

I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

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