Top 250 David Bowie Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.”

— David Bowie

52. “Making love with his ego.”

— David Bowie

53. “Listen to me, don’t listen to me. Talk to me, don’t talk to me.”

— David Bowie

54. “In your fear, seek only peace. In your fear, seek only love.”

— David Bowie

55. “Never bored, so I’ll never get old.”

— David Bowie

56. “Feeling so gay, feeling so gay.”

— David Bowie

57. “It’s only forever, not long at all.”

— David Bowie

58. “I’ve been putting out the fire with gasoline.”

— David Bowie

59. “Church on time, makes me party.”

— David Bowie

60. “I surrounded myself with people who indulged my ego. They treated me as though I was Ziggy Stardust or one of my characters, never realising that David Jones might be behind it.”

— David Bowie

61. “You should turn around at the end of the day and say I really like that piece of work, or that piece of work sucked. Not, was that popular or wasn’t it popular?”

— David Bowie

62. “Rock’s always been the devil’s music.”

— David Bowie

63. “Hitler was the first superstar.”

— David Bowie

64. “He says he’s a beautician and sells you nutrition, and keeps all your dead hair for making underwear.”

— David Bowie

65. “The sun machine is coming down, and we’re gonna have a party.”

— David Bowie

66. “Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence.”

— David Bowie

67. “I’ll paint you moments of gold, I’ll spin you Valentine evenings...”

— David Bowie

68. “I don’t live for the stage. I don’t live for an audience.”

— David Bowie

69. “Sits like a man, but smiles like a reptile.”

— David Bowie

70. “I made a more mature approach to industrial music.”

— David Bowie

71. “I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.”

— David Bowie

72. “I can see light at the end of the tunnel and it isn’t a train.”

— David Bowie

73. “My particular thing is discovering what can be done with media and how it can be used. You can’t draw people together like one big huge family, people don’t want that. They want isolation or a tribal thing.”

— David Bowie

74. “I kind of miss that “becoming” stage, as most times you really don’t know what’s around the corner. Now, of course, I’ve kind of knocked on the door and heard a muffled answer. Nevertheless, I still don’t know what the voice is saying, or even what language it’s in.”

— David Bowie

75. “I think that the history of rock could be recycled in a different way and brought back into focus without the luggage that comes along with it.”

— David Bowie

76. “Strung out on lasers and slash back blazers.”

— David Bowie

77. “It’s true – I am a bisexual. But I can’t deny that I’ve used that fact very well. I suppose it’s the best thing that ever happened to me.”

— David Bowie

78. “Why bother choosing a certain chair? Because that chair says something about you.”

— David Bowie

79. “You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.”

— David Bowie

80. “Is it Nice in your snowstorm- freezing your brain? Do you think that your face looks the same?”

— David Bowie

81. “I don’t expect the human race to progress in too many areas. However, having a child with an ear infection makes one hugely grateful for antibiotics.”

— David Bowie

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

— David Bowie

83. “I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12.”

— David Bowie

84. “Oooh, fashion, we are the goon squad and were coming to town, beep beep.”

— David Bowie

85. “I’m afraid of Americans; I’m afraid of the world; I’m afraid I can’t help it.”

— David Bowie

86. “I woke up one day and realized I was a closet hetero.”

— David Bowie

87. “I think the only music I didn’t listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.”

— David Bowie

88. “I never really got the book together for the thing, so I had all the songs and the characters. But by the time we’d gotten it on the road and I’d been doing it for 18 months, oh God, I couldn’t wait to move on to something else.”

— David Bowie

89. “You know, I don’t feel fifty. I feel not a day over forty-nine. It’s incredible. I’m bouncy, I feel bouncy.”

— David Bowie

90. “I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me, because it’s not their profession to do that.”

— David Bowie

91. “I’m an instant star, just add water.”

— David Bowie

92. “I never really had much of an interest in fashion.”

— David Bowie

93. “I’d rather stay here with all the madmen than perish with the sadmen roaming free.”

— David Bowie

94. “Having not really written any generational songs – I think maybe two or three of the songs that I’ve ever written have any bearing on the age of the listener. My stuff tends to be far more concerned with the spiritual and with subjects like isolation and being miserable.”

— David Bowie

95. “Always drawn to the theatric, Bowie also performed in stage productions of “The Elephant Man” and just recently collaborated on “Lazarus,” an off-Broadway musical that’s a sequel to his 1976 role in the film “The Man Who Fell To Earth.””

— David Bowie

96. “I’m bemused by the whole Robbie Williams aspect of British pop. Posh Spice? It all looks like cruise ship entertainment to me.”

— David Bowie

97. “I don’t know how many times someone has come up to me and said, “Hey, Lets dance!“. I hate dancing. God, it’s stupid.”

— David Bowie

98. “Who’ll love Aladdin Sane? Battle cries and champagne just in time for sunrise.”

— David Bowie

99. “There’s a thing that just as you go to sleep, if you keep your elbows elevated that you will never go below the dream stage. And I’ve used that quite a lot and it keeps me dreaming much longer than if I just relaxed.”

— David Bowie

100. “We slit the Catholic throat, stoned the poor on such slogans as wish you could hear and love is all we need.”

— David Bowie