David Bowie Quotes

Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.

Making love with his ego.

I think I am a lot more relaxed about what I have or haven't done.

I didn't say that wearing a glamorization of the rock artist was any truer from the other thing.

[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz.

[David] Bowie's last album "Blackstar" featured him backed by a jazz quartet.

I heard the news today, oh boy.

I never really had much of an interest in fashion.

If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.

No more free steps to heaven.

I guess Ziggy would have been the perfect vehicle to have done with.

I thought that I could do some kind of vehicle involving rock musicals and presenting rock and characters and storyline in a completely different fashion.

My father worked for a children's home called Dr. Barnardo's Homes. They're a charity.

He took it all too far, but boy could he play guitar.

I am a D.J., I am what I play.

You've got your mother in a whirl, she's not sure if your a boy or a girl.

I think Lindsay Kemp really introduced me to the work of Jean Genet, and through that, I kind of kept re-educating myself about other prose writers and poets.

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth. Everything falls into a feeling of 'rightness'.

We can't stop trying til we break up our minds, til the sun drips blood on the seedy young knight.

Sexuality and where it is going is an extraordinary question, for I don't see it going anywhere. It is with me, and that's it.

Mine is really - Ziggy Stardust, characters, "Let's Dance." That's me in the American.

In fact, in Europe, I'm more kind of this bloke what writes lots of stuff.

If I put faith in medication, if I can smile a crooked smile, if I can talk on television, if I can walk an empty mile.

Illusion I will be, for I've never been a sinner.

Who'll love Aladdin Sane? Battle cries and champagne just in time for sunrise.

Oooh, fashion, we are the goon squad and were coming to town, beep beep.

I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

I don't like talk and I don't like talkers. Like Ma Barker. That's what she always said, 'Ma Barker doesn't like talk and she doesn't like talkers.' She just sat there with her gun.

Things have to hit for the moment. That's one of the reasons I'm into video; the image has to hit immediately. I adore video and the whole cutting up of it.

Elvis is English, and climbs the hills. Can't tell the bullshit from the lies.

Ziggy played guitar, jamming good with Weird and Gilly.

We slit the Catholic throat, stoned the poor on such slogans as wish you could hear and love is all we need.

I don't believe in proper cinema; it doesn't have the strength of television. People having to go out to the cinema is really archaic. I'd much rather sit at home.

The character thing really is sort of, for me, personally, rather ancient history.

Bowie talks in great, voluble torrents, darting from one topic to the next, parenthesizing and then parenthesizing the parentheses, as if he has too many ideas for one conversation.

... And these childrenthat you spit onas they try to change their worldsare immune to your consultations.They're quite awareof what they're going through...

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming

What is the quality you most like in a man? The ability to return books.

We can be heroes just for one day

Written in pain, written in aweBy a puzzled man who questionedWhat we were here for

I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlourdrinking milk shakes cold and longSmiling and waving and looking so finedon't think you knew you were in this song

She will be your living hell.

Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out...

Success is seasonal.

Cause I'd rather stay hereWith all the madmenThan perish with the sadmen roaming freeAnd I'd rather play hereWith all the madmenFor I'm quite content they're all as saneAs me

Sometimes I don't feel as if I'm a person at all. I'm just a collection of other people's ideas.

If I could control tomorrow's haze, The darkened shore wouldn't bother me, If I can't control the web we weave, My life will be lost in the fallen leaves...

And you, You can be meanAnd I, I'll drink all the time'Cause we're lovers, And that is a factYes we're lovers, And that is that

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

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.