The Best David Bowie quotes

I ask for so little.Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave — David Bowie

Love is every type of relationship that you think of… I’m sure it means relationship, every type of relationship that you can think of. — David Bowie

I’ll place my love beneath the stars. — David Bowie

In your fear, seek only peace. In your fear, seek only love. — David Bowie

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

I have someone who loves me for me. Seriously, it REALLY helps! — David Bowie

It’s not the side effects of the cocaine. . . . I’m thinking that it must be love. — David Bowie

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

Making love with his ego. — David Bowie

It’s not the side–effects of the cocaine–I’m thinking that it must be love. It’s too late to be grateful, It’s too late to be hateful, It’s too late to be late again, The European cannon is here. — David Bowie

Rebel, rebel, you’ve torn your dress. Rebel, rebel, your face is a mess. Rebel, rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so. — David Bowie

Keep your ‘lectric eye on me babe Put your ray gun to my head Press your space face close to mine, love Freak out in a moonage daydream, oh yeah! — David Bowie

Gentleness clears the soul Love cleans the mind And makes it Free.–Fill Your Heart — David Bowie

Speak in extremes, it’ll save you time. — David Bowie

I’ve come to the realisation that I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing half the time… — David Bowie

I’ve made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I’ve made two real stinkers in my time, and some not–bad albums, and some really good albums. I’m proud of what I’ve done. In fact it’s been a good ride. — 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

I probably also wanted to be black at that particular time [ 9 years old] as well. — David Bowie

It’s always time to question what has become standard and established. — David Bowie

I think it’s rather a waste of time endlessly singing the same songs every night for a year, and it’s just not what I want to do. — David Bowie

We could steal time, just for one day We can be Heroes, for ever and ever What d’you say? — David Bowie

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

People don’t get a chance to think, ‘Why am I a consumer?’ Because the decisions come at them so fast and furiously, they’re not [even] given time to think, I am a consumer. — David Bowie

Who’ll love Aladdin Sane? Battle cries and champagne just in time for sunrise. — David Bowie

Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth. — David Bowie

And you, you can be mean. And I, I’ll drink all the time. Cause we’re lovers, and that is a fact. Yes, we’re lovers, and that is that. — David Bowie

I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12. — David Bowie

When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious–looking and a bit foreboding. — David Bowie

You promised me the ending would be clear. You’d let me know when the time was now. Don’t let me know when you’re opening the door. Strap me in the dark, let me disappear. — David Bowie

Church on time, makes me party. — David Bowie

Rock’s always been the devil’s music. — David Bowie

I made a more mature approach to industrial music. — David Bowie

I think music should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself. It should be the clown, the Pierrot medium. — David Bowie

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. — David Bowie

I think hip–hop is actually one of the most challenging things that’s happened in music in a long time. — David Bowie

It’s much easier for me to say that, the kind of music I didn’t listen to was pretty much that. I mean everything, from jazz to classical to popular. And Tibetan horns were a great part of it in 1966, ’67. — 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

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music. — David Bowie

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

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

I guess, people like myself and Roxy Music that had a different agenda about taking up music. — David Bowie

I think the only music I didn’t listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day. — David Bowie

Dance music is no longer a simple Donna Summer beat. It’s become a whole language that I find fascinating and exciting. Eventually, it will lose the dance tag and join the fore of rock. — David Bowie

You know, I don’t feel fifty. I feel not a day over forty–nine. It’s incredible. I’m bouncy, I feel bouncy. — David Bowie

I feel that what I do is always contemporary with the society I’m living in… If I wanted to explain myself, that’s how I’d explain myself: that I’m a diarist. — David Bowie

I’ve learned to relax and be my present age and my present position. I feel comfortable on my mid–thirties. It doesn’t seem such an alien place to be. — 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

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

There’s something about the style of living in the country that they feel, ‘This is what represents me.’ So style is about the philosophy of how we create our civilization. — David Bowie

These are all personal crises, I’m sure, that I manifest in a song format and project into physical situations. You make little stories up about how you feel. It’s as simple as that. — 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

And when the clothes are strewn, Don’t be afraid of the room. Touch the fullness of her breast, Feel the love of her caress… She will be your living end.–Lady Grinning Soul — 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

Now I realize that from ’72 through to about ’76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn’t have been more rock star. — David Bowie

I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived. — David Bowie

I didn’t say that wearing a glamorization of the rock artist was any truer from the other thing. — David Bowie

This ain’t rock ‘n’ roll. This is genocide! — David Bowie

I think that the history of rock could be recycled in a different way and brought back into focus without the luggage that comes along with it. — 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

It is entirely possible to create something totally artificial within the realms of rock and roll. — David Bowie

I’m not sure that an art career would have any benefit for me; I’m not sure it’s what I want. I don’t think I want to be a designer–rock artist. — David Bowie

I never really felt like a rock singer or a rock star or whatever. — David Bowie

Rock has always been the devil’s music… I believe that rock & roll is dangerous… I feel that we’re only heralding something even darker than ourselves. — David Bowie

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. — David Bowie

Strangely, some songs you really don’t want to write. — David Bowie

I’ve always tended to write songs prolifically. — David Bowie

I think a lot of that album [‘Tonight’ ] is still very good . . . the songs, but I think I was indifferent to the arrangements. — David Bowie

I’m wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It’s a real enjoyment. — David Bowie

I am a moderately good singer. I am not a great singer but I can interpret a song, which I don’t think is quite the same as singing it. — David Bowie

Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough. — David Bowie

Songs don’t have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink–up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I’ve done is about alienation… about where you fit in society. — David Bowie

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

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I’ve seen on some of the songs that I’ve written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in. — David Bowie

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? — David Bowie

What I like doing is writing and recording and much more on the, I guess, the–on that creative level. It’s fun interpreting songs and all that, but I wouldn’t like it as a living. — David Bowie

I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to color the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song. — David Bowie

Don’t let me hear you say life takes you nowhere, angel. — David Bowie

I had a fantasy that i’d drift up to Scotland and spend my life as a faux bodhisattua. — David Bowie

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever need. — David Bowie

I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players. — David Bowie

Pop stars are capable of growing old. Mick Jagger at 50 will be marvelous–a battered old roue–I can just see him. An aging rock star doesn’t have to opt out life. When I’m 50, I’ll prove it. — David Bowie

I have found myself deeply, deeply intrigued by the ska–punk scene. It’s such an expressive form of popular music, it’s so real, it’s got so much life: it’s the most vital music in the world. — David Bowie

I don’t like people probing into my life, so I reveal as little as possible or lie about it as much as need be so as to give them something to write about. — David Bowie

You can’t stand still on one point for your entire life. — David Bowie

I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing. — David Bowie

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. — David Bowie

It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be. — David Bowie

For me a chameleon is something that disguises itself to look as much like its environment as possible. I always thought I did exactly the opposite of that. — David Bowie

When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn’t live past 30. — David Bowie

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I thought, ‘Fuck that. I want to be a superhuman. — David Bowie

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. — David Bowie

I once asked [John] Lennon what he thought of what I do. He said ‘it’s great, but its just rock and roll with lipstick on’. — David Bowie

I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doing. And because nobody else was ever doing my songs, I felt–you know, I had to go out and do them. — David Bowie