David Bowie And Quotations

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

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

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

I once asked [John] Lennon what he thought of what I do. He said 'it's great, but its just rock and roll with lipstick on'.

Rock has always been THE DEVIL'S MUSIC . . . I believe rock and roll is dangerous . . . I feel we're only heralding SOMETHING EVEN DARKER THAN OURSELVES.

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?

It's a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there's a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that's how some of us conduct our lives.

The sun machine is coming down, and we're gonna have a party.

I am a D.J., I am what I play.

He took it all too far, but boy could he play guitar.

It is entirely possible to create something totally artificial within the realms of rock and roll.