Quotes from David Bowie

I needed to sing because nobody else was singing my songs.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.

Wham! Bam! Thank You Ma'am! - Suffragette City

Music has both been my doorway to perception and the house I live in

Zane zane zane, ouvre le chien

She will be your living end. - Lady Grinning Soul

He Said. David, you must remember that in all the functions we have in life, art is the one place where we can crash our plane and walk away from it. And that's so right. Creating something is the one area where you mustn't have caution or inhibition. If you make a startling, disastrous mess, it's fine, because you can reach out and reevaluate and plunge off into another direction. Bowie on Eno and art Interview Magazine September 1995

All the knives seem to lacerate your brain I've had my share I'll help you with the pain - Rock and Roll Suicide

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously. (2012)

The wrong words make you listen in this criminal world. - Fantastic Voyage

Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been

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

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them. If I hadn't learned how to be a musician and writer, it wouldn't have mattered what I did. I never knew too many rock people. I would get to a place, some nightclub or other, and see all these famous rockers bonding.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

Tomorrow belongs to those who hear it coming.

I am only the person the greatest number of people think I am. (1999)

But the film is a saddening bore, 'cause I wrote it ten times or more.

Blackstar, two days before his death. And interestingly, that record was a kind of self-interview—Bowie's most fearless and open of them all, wherein he answers the ultimate hard question "What is it like to be dying?"—and reveals in poetic detail what had meaning to him in his life Ã¢â'¬Â¦ while addressing his audience with a certain innate gratitude as he says goodbye.

It behoves the art establishment to elevate them to a higher plateau as fast as possible, to make them unavailable, aesthetically, to a low art market...[The art establishment] extends its parameters to capture the new thing and elevate it from low art to high art—successfully enough to increase the commerce proposition that goes along with it—and to consign the idea of art to a particular world.

It wasn't so much about how I felt about things, but rather how things around me felt. To put it simply, I had discovered the Englishman's true place in rock and roll.

I'm just a cosmic yob, I suppose.

My country is in the depths of lethargy and very apathetic, there is very little happening. There's no action in my country. This is quite a challenge to come over to a country like this where for me the most important thing to me is that the music is a communicative blanket media. Where at home it's merely something to listen to.

But I'll be there for you as the world falls down

Even though it was enormously successful, there was no growth going on at all. They were very hard years to get through, to find any sense of purpose. I wasn't allowing myself the service of being who I really am as an artist. I'd given myself dreadful parameters in confining myself to merely what I presumed people wanted. I never wanted to do this. I never wanted to be out there pleasing people. I wanted to be really stubborn and have people like what I like, not give them what they like.