40 David Bowie Quotes About Life, Creativity, and Change

Liputan6.com, Jakarta - Words have power. They can inspire people, change minds, and stay with us for a long time. Some people have a special gift for saying things that feel true and meaningful. Their words go beyond music, art, or fame. David Bowie quotes are a great example of this. They touch on life, identity, and creativity in ways that many people around the world still connect with today.

David Bowie was a British musician and artist who shaped modern music and culture over several decades. Throughout his career, he was known for reinventing himself and exploring ideas around identity, art, and what it means to be human. He passed away in 2016, but his influence remains strong to this day. David Bowie quotes continue to resonate with people from around the world.

In this article, we have gathered some of the best David Bowie quotes that will give you a fresh look about life. Let's dive in.

1. "Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming."

2. "I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring."

3. "I feel confident imposing change on myself. It's a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That's why I need to throw curve balls."

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

5. "I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself."

6. "Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything."

7. "If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive."

8. "In your fear, seek only peace. In your fear, seek only love."

9. "The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time."

10. "I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity."

11. "Fame itself... doesn't really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant."

12. "I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously."

13. "Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist."

14. “Turn and face the strange changes.”

15. “Speak in extremes, it'll save you time. ”

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

17. “I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.”

18. “Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person you always should have been.”

19. “As you get older the questions come down to two or three. How long have I got and what am I gonna do with the time I've got left?”

20. “As you get older the questions come down to two or three. How long have I got and what am I gonna do with the time I've got left?”

21. “The moment you know you know you know.”

22. “If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.”

23. "Trust nothing but your own experience."

24. "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."

25. "All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker."

26. "Age doesn't bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It's the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am."

27. "Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place."

28. "All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it."

29. "Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them."

30. "Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write."

31. "Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived."

32. "The end comes when the infinites arrive."

33. "Comfort comes into your house first as guest, then as a host, then finally as the master."

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

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

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

37. "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."

38. "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."

39. "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."

40. "I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir."