David Bowie was born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947 in Brixton, London. He is one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century.
He sold an estimated 140 million albums and singles worldwide, including 45 million albums in the United States alone. In addition, he released three number one albums in a row (Fame, Lets Dance, and The Buddha of Suburbia) as well as four other consecutive top-five solo albums in the UK (Hunky Dory, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust, and the Spiders from Mars, Aladdin Sane, and Pinups).
As a music artist, Bowie also achieved critical success as an actor in Nicolas Roeg’s 1976 film The Man Who Fell to Earth. Bowie died on 10 January 2016 after an 18-month battle with cancer, two days after his 69th birthday.
Here are his most inspiring quotes that motivate you to revitalize your life than being boring and make it beautiful.
Top 33 Inspirational David Bowie Quotes
1. “Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.” ― David Bowie
2. “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?“ – David Bowie
3. “Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever need.” ― David Bowie
4. “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.” ― David Bowie
5. “What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.” ― David Bowie
6. “The only art I’ll ever study is stuff that I can steal from.” ― David Bowie
7. “I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody’s talents.” ― David Bowie
8. “Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.” ― David Bowie
9. “I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.” ― David Bowie
10. -“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.” ― David Bowie
11. “It’s always time to question what has become standard and established.” ― David Bowie
12. “I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.” ― David Bowie
13. “I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.” ― David Bowie
14. “Speak in extremes, it’ll save you time. ” ― David Bowie
15. “I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.” ― David Bowie
16. “Keep your electric eye on me babe. Put your ray gun to my head. Press your space face close to mine, love. Freak out in a moonage daydream, oh yeah.” ― David Bowies
17. “The moment you know you know you know.” ― David Bowie
18. “If it works, it’s out of date.” ― David Bowie
19. “I don’t have a problem with aging – in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily… it doesn’t faze me at all.” ― David Bowie
20. “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” ― David Bowie
21. “Fame itself… doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.” ― David Bowie
22. “I never really felt like a rock singer or a rock star or whatever.” ― David Bowie
23. “Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you’re pretty much on the way out…” ― David Bowie
24. “You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.” ― David Bowie
25. “People have attention spans of five seconds and as much depth as a glass of water.” ― David Bowie
26. “I’m always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don’t even take what I am seriously.” ― David Bowie
27. “You can neither win nor lose if you don’t run the race.” ― David Bowie
28. “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.” ― David Bowie
29. “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.” ― David Bowie
30. “Don’t let me hear you say life takes you nowhere, angel.” ― David Bowie
31. “I don’t care what anybody says; I like doing it, and it’s what I shall continue to do.” ― David Bowie
32. “What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.” ― David Bowie
33. “No more free steps to heaven.” ― David Bowie
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