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

Boring, Know, Promise, Going, Here

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

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

Tomorrow, Coming, Hear, Who, Those

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

Change, Myself, Looking Back, Fun, Feel

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, Eccentricity

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

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

Water, Famous, Star, Just, Add, Stir

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, Me, Demons, You, Understand, Hand

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

Need, Human, More, Always, Something

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

People, Me, Situation, Sometimes, Will

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

Journey, Time, Truth, Truth Is, Same

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

Place, You, Sometimes, Reflective, Few

Top 10
David Bowie
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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

Life, God, Me, Hell, Short, Speed

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

Man, Potential, Living, Stone, Superman

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

Myself, Doing, Being Myself, Shy, Nobody

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

Good, Restaurant, Fame, You, Anything

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

Fear, Great, Isolation, Kind, Worldview

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

Change, Mind, Liar, Say, Agree, Much

You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is. David Bowie

World, Think, Rock Star, Rock, You, Star

I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance. David Bowie

Music, Theatre, Me, Important, Wheel

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

Perspective, Curiosity, People, Me, Look

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

Identity, Crazy, Plant, Think, Seeds

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, You, Will, Absence, Confrontation

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

Music, Thought, Transformation, Place

For me, often, there's such a cloud of melancholia about knowing I'm going to have to leave my daughter on her own. I don't know what age that is going to be, thank God. It just doubles me up in grief. David Bowie

Daughter, God, Grief, Age, Thank God, Me

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. David Bowie

Learning, Struggle, Age, Enthusiasm, Go

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. David Bowie

Music, Age, Television, You, Mouth, Kind

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, Humanity, Questions, You, Focused

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