David Bowie Quotes about Philosophy

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I'm drawn between the light and dark.

David Bowie

Philosophy, Dark, Light

Secret thinker sometimes listening aloud.

David Bowie

Philosophy, Secret, Listening

Song: Win, Album: Young Americans, 1975

The name Bowie just appealed to me when I was younger. I was into a kind of heavy philosophy thing when I was 16 years old, and I wanted a truism about cutting through the lies and all that.

David Bowie

Philosophy, Lying, Cutting

David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.49, Melville House

A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle. The rock stars have assimilated all kinds of philosophies, styles, histories, writings, and they throw out what they have gleaned from that.

David Bowie

Song, Stars, Philosophy

David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.35, Melville House

There's something about the style of living in the country that they feel, "This is what represents me." So style is about the philosophy of how we create our civilization.

David Bowie

Country, Philosophy, Civilization

"David Bowie & Mos Def: The Style Council". Interview with Ben White, www.complex.com. August, 2003.