David Bowie Quotes

“Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.”

“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.”

“What I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.”

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

“Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.”

“Searching for music is like searching for God. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable.”

“I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs.”

“Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. 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.”

“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.”

“Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.”

“I cannot with any real integrity perform songs I've done for 25 years. What I need is to feel that I am not letting myself down as an artist and that I still have something to contribute.”

“I couldn't have written things like "Low" and "Heroes," those particular albums, if it hadn't been for Berlin and the kind of atmosphere I felt there.”

“I realised 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 would dream. I focused all my attention on going to America. The subculture, James Dean, the rock 'n' roll, the beat writers.”

“I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. So I persuaded my dad to get me a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.”

“I'm an early riser. I get up between five and six, have coffee, and read for a couple of hours before everyone else gets up.”

“I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me because it's not their profession to do that.”

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

“Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.”

“I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.”

“I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.”

“I change my mind a lot. I usually don't agree with what I say very much.”

“I'm looking for backing for an unauthorised autobiography 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.”

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

“The Americans at heart are a pure and noble people; things to them are in black and white. We Brits putter around in the grey area.”