David Bowie Quotes
25 quotes
David Bowie
English musician and cultural icon known for reinvention
25 Quotes
Ashes to ashes, funk to funky, we know Major Tom’s a junkie
— Ashes to Ashes (song lyric)
I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human
— Rolling Stone, 1976
I found the secrets I found the gold
— Blackstar, 2016
The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return
— Nature Boy (Song, performed on Moulin Rouge Soundtrack, 2001)
We live for just these twenty years, do we have to die for the fifty more?
— Lady Stardust (1972)
The future belongs to those who can hear it coming
— Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps), 1980
I’m stepping through the door, and I’m floating in a most peculiar way
— Space Oddity (1969)
Let's dance, put on your red shoes and dance the blues
— Let's Dance, 1983
Fame, what you like is in the limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow
— Fame (song, 1975)
The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time
— Interview, Rolling Stone, 1997
Time may change me, but I can't trace time
— Changes, 1971
I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously
— Interview, Rolling Stone, 1974
I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring
— Madison Square Garden, 50th Birthday Concert, 1997
We can be heroes, just for one day
— Heroes (song, 1977)
Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming
— Heathen (Album, 2002), Sunday (Song)
I don’t know where I’m going but I sure know where I’ve been
— Interview with Melody Maker (1972)
Make the best of every moment. We're not evolving. We're not going anywhere
— Interview, The Face, 1980
Hot tramp, I love you so
— Ziggy Stardust, 1972
Turn and face the strange, ch-ch-changes
— Changes (song, 1971)
All the nightmares came today, and it looks as though they're here to stay
— Oh! You Pretty Things (1971)
The moment you know, you know you know
— Sound and Vision (1977)
I'm not a prophet or a stone age man, just a mortal with the potential of a superman
— Quicksand (song lyric)
I re-invented my image so many times that I’m in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman
— Interview Magazine, 1995
There's a starman waiting in the sky, he'd like to come and meet us but he thinks he'd blow our minds
— Starman (song lyric)
Religion is for people who are afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who have already been there
— Interview with Livewire Magazine, 1997