Quotes from 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.

No more free steps to heaven. - It's No Game

Cause I'd rather stay here With all the madmen Than perish with the sadmen roaming free And I'd rather play here With all the madmen For I'm quite content they're all as sane As me. - All the Madmen

Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one's emotional plane.

We can be heroes just for one day. - Heroes

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

All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author, There is no authoritative active voice. There are only multiple readings.

The only art I'll ever study is stuff that I can steal from.

Gentleness clears the soul Love cleans the mind And makes it Free. - Fill Your Heart

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... - No Control

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.

When I looked in her eyes they were blue but nobody home. - Scarey Monsters (and Super Creeps)

Some make you sing and some make you scream, One makes you wish that you'd never been seen. But there's a shop on the corner that's selling papier-mache, Making bullet-proof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay. If you want it, boys, get it here, thing. - Sweet Thing

And I don't care what anybody says; I like doing it, and it's what I shall continue to do

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.

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

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

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

I rate Morrissey (Steven Patrick Morrissey) as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he`s up there with Bryan Ferry.

I can see light at the end of the tunnel and it isn't a train.

This is a mad planet, David Bowie said in 1971. It's doomed to madness.

There's a taste in my mouth and it's no taste at all. - Queen Bitch

It's always time to question what has become standard and established.

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