Quotes by David Bowie

“... And these childrenthat you spit onas they try to change their worldsare immune to your consultations.They're quite awareof what they're going through...”

“Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming”

“We can be heroes just for one day”

“Written in pain, written in aweBy a puzzled man who questionedWhat we were here for”

“Bowie talks in great, voluble torrents, darting from one topic to the next, parenthesizing and then parenthesizing the parentheses, as if he has too many ideas for one conversation.”

“I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlourdrinking milk shakes cold and longSmiling and waving and looking so finedon't think you knew you were in this song”

“People are so fucking dumb. Nobody reads anymore, nobody goes out and looks and explores the society and culture they were brought up in. People have attention spans of five seconds and as much dep...”

“She will be your living hell.”

“Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of ones emotional plane.”

“I can ask for cigarettes in every language”

“What is the quality you most like in a man? The ability to return books.”

“Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out...”

“I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I thought, 'Fuck that. I want to be a superhuman.”

“Success is seasonal.”

“David Thomas: What do you think is the worst crime that could possibly be committed? What is the crime that offends you most?David Bowie: Seeing a man humble himself in his capacity as a worker to ...”

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

“Cause I'd rather stay hereWith all the madmenThan perish with the sadmen roaming freeAnd I'd rather play hereWith all the madmenFor I'm quite content they're all as saneAs me”

“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...”

“I do value the respect I get from my contemporaries, but to have Oasis cover my song, to have Puff Daddy cover a song, to have Goldie come along to my gigs - that's where my ego is at. To have my f...”

“What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.”