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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'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

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

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

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

Best, Often, Somebody

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

I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.
David Bowie

Woman, Times, Denial

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

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.
David Bowie

Put, Sometimes, Place

But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.
David Bowie

Work, Good, Thinking

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.
David Bowie

Men, Mediocrity, Fame

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Nationality: English

Born: January 8, 1947

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