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David Bowie Quotes

1947–2016 England

David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 - 10 January 2016), known under his stage name David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, arranger, painter, and actor. Bowie was a figure in popular music for over four decades, and was known as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s.

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Also known as: Bowie, David, Life on Mars?

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

As long as you're still smiling there's nothing more I need.

All I have is my love of love and love is not loving.

I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human. I felt very very puny as a human. I thought, "Fuck that. I want to be a superman."

Those who feel me near
Pull the blinds and change their minds.

Though nothing, nothing will keep us together
We can beat them, forever and ever
Oh, we can be heroes just for one day.

People have their fingers broken.
To be insulted by these fascists
Is so degrading and it's no game.

Let's dance — put on your red shoes and dance the blues…

Planet Earth is blue,
And there's nothing I can do.

I get offered so many bad movies. And they're all raging queens or transvestites or Martians.

Is it any wonder I reject you first?
Fame, fame, fame, fame
Is it any wonder you are too cool to fool
Fame (fame).

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

the chapter on Bowie in Valentines & Vitriol (1978)

Fame, (fame) what you get is no tomorrow
Fame, (fame) what you need you have to borrow
Fame (fame).

See these eyes so green…
I can stare for a thousand years…

We can be heroes, just for one day.

I'm stepping through the door,
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way.
And the stars look very different today.

I turned myself to face me
But I've never caught a glimpse
Of how the others must see the faker
I'm much too fast to take that test.

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.

Livewire interview (2002)

It's odd but even when I was a kid, I would write about "old and other times" as though I had a lot of years behind me.

Livewire interview (2002)

It's an odd feeling, like something else is guiding you, although forcing your hand is more like it.

Livewire interview (2002)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: David Bowie (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.