David Bowie Quotes

It's a god-awful small affair
To the girl with the mousy hair
But her mummy is yelling "No"
And her daddy has told her to go
But her friend is nowhere to be seen
Now she walks through her sunken dream
To the seat with the clearest view
And she's hooked to the silver screen.
But the film is a saddening bore
'Cause she's lived it ten times or more.

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

I've never done good things
I've never done bad things
I never did anything out of the blue, whoa whoa
Want an axe to break the ice
Wanna come down right now
Ashes to ashes, funk to funky We know Major Tom's a junkie Strung out in heaven's high Hitting an all-time low.
My mama said to get things done
You'd better not mess with Major Tom

My brother was one of the bigger influences in my life, in as much as he told me I didn't have to read the choice of books that I as recommended at school, and that I could go out to the library and go and choose my own, and sort of introduced me to authors that I wouldn't have read.probably. You know, the usual things like the Jack Kerouacs, the Ginsbergs, the ee Cummings and stuff.

I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants.

Tony went to fight in Belfast,
Rudi stayed at home to starve.
I could make it all worthwhile as a rock & roll star.
Bevan tried to change the nation,
Sonny wants to turn the world, well he can tell you that
he tried.
I could make a transformation as a rock & roll star.

So inviting,
So enticing to play the part.
I could play the wild mutation as a rock & roll star.

I could do with the money,
I'm so wiped out with things as they are.
I'd send my photograph to my honey,
And I'd come on like a regular superstar

I could fall asleep at night
As a rock & roll star
I could fall in love all right
As a rock & roll star.

- Star

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

BOWIE: I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar. (...)
I’m not sure whether it is me changing my mind, or whether I lie a lot. It’s somewhere between the two. I don’t exactly lie, I change my mind all the time. People are always throwing things at me that I’ve said and I say that I didn’t mean anything. You can’t stand still on one point for your entire life.

I'm more interested in the work of artists than in the artists themselves.

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

The wrong words make you listen in this criminal world.

- Fantastic Voyage

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.

Look up here, I’m in heaven
I’ve got scars that can’t be seen
I’ve got drama, can’t be stolen
Everybody knows me now

- Lazarus

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes Turn and face the strange.

There's a terror in knowing what the world is about