David Bowie Quotes

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

After, Sometimes, Situation

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

Boring, Here, Won

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

Water, Star, Stir

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

Life, Mind, Cannot

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

Seriously, Amazed

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

Time, Truth, Same

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.
David Bowie

Mean, Put, Sometimes

I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.
David Bowie

Mother, Sex, Image

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. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.
David Bowie

Powerful, Passion, May

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

Work, Religion, Technology

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

Time, Long, Down

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

Human, Repulsive

I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.
David Bowie

Living, Potential, Superman

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

Music, Understand, Hand

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.
David Bowie

Star, Pop, Adolf

Funk, I don't think I have anything to do with funk. I've never considered myself funky.
David Bowie

Funky, Funk, Considered

I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.
David Bowie

Time, Loyalty, Integrity

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

Music, Explaining, Articulate

I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents.
David Bowie

Best, Often, Somebody

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.
David Bowie

Music, Work, Time

I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.
David Bowie

Selfish, Mean, Same

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

Money, Finance, Writing

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.
David Bowie

Life, Once, Absence

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

Work, Working, Individual

Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.
David Bowie

Important, Youth, Pixies

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Nationality: English

Born: January 8, 1947

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