David Bowie Quotes

English - Musician January 8, 1947 - January 10, 2016

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

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

Here, Boring, Going

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity. - David Bowie

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity. David Bowie

Freedom, Find, Only

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming. - David Bowie

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming. David Bowie

Belongs, Tomorrow, Those

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

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

Star, Famous, Add

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. David Bowie

Imposing, Looking Back, Need

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, Prophet, Aged

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

Truth, Departing, Same

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

Like, Work, Difference

Glam really did plant seeds for a new identity. I think a lot of kids needed that - that sense of reinvention. Kids learned that however crazy you may think it is, there is a place for what you want to do and who you want to be. David Bowie

However, Glam, New

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

Art, Questions, About

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What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That's what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people. David Bowie

Curiosity, Need, Look

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. David Bowie

Always, Big, Very

As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn't really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn't have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself. David Bowie

Through, Doing, Shy

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

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

Always, Repulsive, Need

Fame itself... doesn't really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant. David Bowie

Seat, Itself, Afford

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

Questions, About, Come

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. David Bowie

Always, Art, Been

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

Other, Pose, Shock

I'm responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension. David Bowie

School, New, Responsible

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

Will, Absence, Confront

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. David Bowie

Very, Notes, Searching

I never really felt like a rock singer or a rock star or whatever. David Bowie

Rock, Rock Star, Never

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

Image, Denial, Woman

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

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

Stumble, Across, Reflective

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

Deal, Terror, Kind

I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely. David Bowie

Think, Art, I Think

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