David Bowie Quotes - Page 2

Make the best of every moment. We're not evolving. We're not going anywhere.

I don't live for the stage. I don't live for an audience.

One day I realized that I really needed to stop losing myself in my work and in my addictions. What happens is you just wake up one morning and feel absolutely dead. You can't even drag your soul back into your body. You feel you have negated everything that is wonderful about life. When you have fallen that far, it feels like a miracle when you regain your love of life. That's when you can begin really looking for a relationship. When you can appreciate the whole concept of giving to someone, not just taking.

Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.

I'm a born librarian with a sex drive.

And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through.

Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.

All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author. There is no authoritative voice. There are only multiple readings.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.

Never bored, so I'll never get old

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

You can't put down anybody. You can just try and understand. The emphasis shouldn't be on revolution, it should be on communication. Because it's just going to get more uptight. The more the revolution goes on, and there will be a civil war sooner or later.

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

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

And I think my spaceship knows which way to go.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.

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

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.

The Internet is merely a new means of communication, that's all it is. It serves the purpose of getting information, which it is fantastic at. I mean, I live by the Internet in terms of research and it's incredible - there's nothing that you can't find out about. It's not stopped me going to bookshops but I must say that I don't go into as many because any book I want.

The end comes when the infinites arrive.

I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.

If it works, it's out of date.

I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.