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I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.
— David Bowie
The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
— David Bowie
For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.
— David Bowie
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
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
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
To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.
— David Bowie
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.
— David Bowie
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
I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.
— David Bowie
What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.
— David Bowie
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
As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn.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
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
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.
— David Bowie
Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.
— David Bowie
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
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
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
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
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.
— David Bowie
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.
— David Bowie
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
I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.
— David Bowie
Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.
— David Bowie
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
It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth.
— David Bowie
Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.
— David Bowie
I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think.
— David Bowie
Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.
— David Bowie
When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.
— David Bowie
I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.
— David Bowie
I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.
— David Bowie
I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.
— David Bowie
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
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 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.
— David Bowie
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
I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.
— David Bowie
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
I change my mind a lot. I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.
— David Bowie
I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.
— David Bowie
With a suit, always wear big British shoes, the ones with large welts. There's nothing worse than dainty little Italian jobs at the end of the leg line.
— David Bowie
I'm very good at what I do, and I don't turn my hand to something unless I'm very good at it, frankly.
— David Bowie
There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.
— David Bowie
I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.
— David Bowie
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
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
I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.
— David Bowie
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
Fame itself... doesn't really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.
— David Bowie
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
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
I've always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I've heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last.
— David Bowie
I'm not very articulate.
— David Bowie
I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it's so essential that when I'm involved in the actual process, my so-called 'real life' becomes almost incidental, which becomes worrying.
— David Bowie
I'm responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.
— David Bowie
My father worked for a children's home called Dr. Barnardo's Homes. They're a charity.
— David Bowie
I was born in London 1947, after the war. A real wartime baby. I went to school in Brixton, and then I moved up to Yorkshire, which is in the north of England. I lived on the farms up there.
— David Bowie
The Internet carries the flag of being subversive and possibly rebellious and chaotic, nihilistic.
— David Bowie
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