641 Quotes by David Bowie

You’ve got your mother in a whirl, she’s not sure if your a boy or a girl.

I’m rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it’s no longer his.

There seem to be a lot of black artists making very good videos that I’m surprised aren’t being used on MTV.

If you come from art, you’ll always be art.

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.

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

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

For here, I’m sitting in a tin can, far above the world. Planet earth is blue, and there is nothing I can do.

I don’t like talk and I don’t like talkers. Like Ma Barker. That’s what she always said, ‘Ma Barker doesn’t like talk and she doesn’t like talkers.’ She just sat there with her gun.