David Bowie Quotes

And I think my spaceship knows which way to go.

Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth.

Sits like a man, but smiles like a reptile.

Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.

You can't stand still on one point for your entire life.

I can ask for cigarettes in every language

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

People look to me to see what the spirit of the Seventies is.

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.

Turn and face the strange.

I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.

Rock's always been the devil's music.

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

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?

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

I was always accused of being cold and unfeeling. It was because I was intimidated about touching people.

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.

I think the first song I ever wrote ... was called "Can't Help Thinking About Me." That's an illuminating little piece, isn't it?

I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.

You should turn around at the end of the day and say I really like that piece of work, or that piece of work sucked. Not, was that popular or wasn't it popular?

Hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand and glue.

I want people to hear musicians like Joe Cuba. He has done things to whole masses of Puerto Rican people. The music is fantastic and important.

In my madness I see your face in mine.

The name Bowie just appealed to me when I was younger. I was into a kind of heavy philosophy thing when I was 16 years old, and I wanted a truism about cutting through the lies and all that.

For here Am I sitting in a tin can, Far above the world. Planet Earth is blue, And there's nothing I can do.

Make the best of every moment. We're not evolving. We're not going anywhere.

Hey man, I gotta straighten my face. This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place.

I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

Ground control to Major Tom.

It makes me sad when I see artists who come alive when they go onstage, because, gee, I really come alive when I'm home.

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.

I'll place my love beneath the stars.

I liked rock music, I kind of moved into that sphere, somehow thinking that somewhere along the line I'd be able to put the two together. And I suppose I very nearly did with the Ziggy character.

We could steal time, just for one day We can be Heroes, for ever and ever What d'you say?

I'm not a natural performer. I don't like performing very much.

I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived.

This ain't rock 'n' roll. This is genocide!

It's a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there's a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that's how some of us conduct our lives.

I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out of my league.

She asked for my love and I gave her a dangerous mind.

It's only forever... Not long at all.

I got a bad migraine that lasted 3 years, and the pills I took made by fingers disappear.

I'm drawn between the light and dark.

I'm very shy. That's probably one of the reasons I got so heavily into drugs.

Why bother choosing a certain chair? Because that chair says something about you.

Listen to me, don't listen to me. Talk to me, don't talk to me.

Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.

To be taken seriously about doing something creative and probably travel a lot. That was my motivation. I knew I was good, I knew I could write. I also knew you could get laid really easily.

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

Lou Reed is the most important definitive writer in modern rock. Not because of the stuff that he does, but the direction that he will take it.