641 Quotes by David Bowie

This ain’t rock ‘n’ roll; this is genocide.

Critics I don’t understand. They get too intellectual. They’re not very well-versed in street talk; it takes them longer to say it. So they have to do it in dictionaries and they take longer to say it.

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.

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

Every time I’ve made a radical change it’s helped me feel buoyant as an artist.

Nothing prepared me for your smile.

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

I’ve learned to relax and be my present age and my present position. I feel comfortable on my mid-thirties. It doesn’t seem such an alien place to be.

Someday, I’m gonna write a poem in a letter; Someday, I’m gonna get that faculty together.