David Bowie is a music legend, producing and collaborating on over 23 albums.
Here is a list of my favorite quotes from the artist’s song lyrics.
Enjoy!
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“Wind blowing your hair, nice big blue sea.”
Don’t be afraid of the man in the moon, because there is only me” (Love You Until Tuesday- David Bowie)
“My studies include voting
I formed my company
Study the potential of fertility
The world is overpopulated
Unless you say barrenness
So who’s gonna buy me a drink, your Messiah” (We’re Hungry Men- David Bowie)
“You will, and the storm will recede”
Wish again, and you will stand before me while the sky paints the overture
The rhythm of David Bowie> and the woods play in my dreams.
“Behold, I sit in a pond far above the world”
Planet Earth is blue and I can’t do anything” (Space Oddity- Space Oddity)
“He intends to look down on you so far from your father’s house.”
And I know what he could do to you as a louse in his house
But I have milk
Great Utopia Dream
And you shine
In the depths
your banker’s spleen” (Illots and Slightly Dazed- Space Oddity)
“And some days will be the limit
As the night begins with one” (The Eyed Boy From Freecloud- Space Oddity)
“O catch one drop of ecstasy”
aim for the south;
To paint love in white removes,
And fly from the top of all the peaks that
man has pushed beyond his brain.
Satori must be the same.
“In the corner of the morning in the past
I sit and reproach the Lord first and last
All roads are straight and narrow
But the prayers were small and yellow
And it’s been reported that I’m getting old fast
Then I ran across a monster that was sleeping by a tree.
And I looked and I saw and it was a monster” (The Width of a Circle- The Man Who Sold the World)
“Because I’d rather stay here
When everyone is mad
How to perish with the free wanderings” (All the Madmen- The man who sold the world‘
“Live until your regeneration and do what you want” (Post All- The Man Who Sold the World
“Where all minds are in one-mindedness
Magical powers are taught by mystics
No pain, no joy, no greater power
Colossal strength to take fate
where the sad sleeps of Nerei were thrown
Let him dream dreams that no mortal mind could hold
Whoever cuts the flesh of his brother will surely die
To turn to imagine”
“… the key to the city”
Either in the sun or the pins
Branches to Heaven” (Poem- Hunky Dory)
“I want to change the size of the circles
But never leave the stream
Invest in the yeast
So the days pass before my eyes
But still the days seem the same
And these children whom you spit upon
As they try to change their worlds
They are immune to your plans
They know exactly what they’re going through” (Changes – Hunky Dory)
“Look out my window and see what I see
A voice in heaven and a hand up to me
Everyone follows dreams
And it looks like it’s here to stay” (O! Pretty Things – Hunky Dory)
“I am not a prophet
or the stone age of men
Just like a mortal
with the power of the hon
I’m living in
Im bound to logic
Wise Man
I can’t take my eyes off
great health
The bullshit of faith
If you don’t explain it, you need to know
You can tell me about everything
On the next Bardo day
I’m drowning in death
of my thoughts” (Quicksand – Hunky Dory)
“I was stone and it was wax”
Thus he could cry;
and relax, incredible
And we fear small children
And our conversation was old
and the dust would flow
Our veins and Strike En!
It was night
Back o’ the kitchen door
Like a grim face
on the floor of the Cathedral
And we wrote in a solid book
Can’t be found today” (Bewlay Brothers-Hunky Dory)
“If he says he can do it
Then he can do;
and does not ask for falsehood
But she is a queen;
and such are the queens
As a smile
better in the brain “(Queen the Bitch- Hunky Dory)
“Oh listen Robert Zimmerman”
I wrote a song for you
About young people
Dylan called
With a voice like sand and glue
His words are true revenge
They could hang us in the floor
Some people
(Song Bob Dylan- Hunky Dory)
“As I remember
Lovers never
“Causes are immune to impure thoughts”
And unrighteous thoughts
Meekness purifies the soul
Love cleanses the mind
And it makes it Free…
Happiness to be…
The dragons of Hellebore
Gentleness is everywhere
The fear is just in your head
Only in your head…
So forget your head
And you’ll be free” (Fill Your Heart-Hunky Dory)
“I have no inspiration”
Just to touch the flaming dove
All things are mine with my love
But love is not to love” (Soul Love- Ziggy Stardust)
“He wasn’t a DJ, he wasn’t a cosmic nebula five” (Starman- Ziggy Stardust)
“Love with me, Carl sucked into my mind
Like the leper Messiah
When the kids killed the man I had to break up the band” (Ziggy Stardust- Ziggy Stardust )
“Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth…
You are too old to lose it, the younger you choose
And the clocks in your song remain so patient
You walk past the chance, but you don’t eat when you’ve lived too long
Oh, no, no, no, you’re a rock n roll death…
Don’t let the sun shine through your shadow
Don’t let the milk float to the top of your mind
Your so natural – religiously unrighteous
O no love! you are not alone
You are watching yourself but you are too unfair
You’ve messed up your whole head, but if only I could
Take care of yourself
O no love! you are not alone
It doesn’t matter what or who you’ve been
It doesn’t matter when or where you’ve seen it
All knives seem to tear your brain
I have had my share, I will help you with your pain
Gimme your hands make you amazing (amazing) (Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide- Ziggy Stardust)
“Immense source of weeping
Just in the Rising Sun (Aladdin Sane- Aladdin Sane)
“Time – It waits in the wings
He speaks of the insensible
His writing is me and you” (Time- Aladdin Of course)
“She’ll be the end of your life” (Lady Grinning Soul- Aladdin Of course)
“The sky is so tired that I feel you are tired
The trick is to see wide
It can break everything but your heart into pieces” (Full Star- Aladdin Of course)
“We creatures are robbed today, locked in a double feather tomorrow”
On the pillow of heaven, with hell the silence competes
We are a twenty-four-hour service to inform you” (Dead Dogs- Diamonds)
“His eye on your soul, his hand on your heart” (Somebody Likes Me- Diamond Dogs)
“It’s not a side-effect of cocaine
I think it must be love” (Station to Station- Station to Station)
“My speech has fled
Like a word on a horn
It does not happen in my speech
With your plan of affairs?” (Word in Wing-Station to Station)
“‘Do you can’t really say when someone
He wants something you want” (Stay- Station to Station)
“And you can be the middle man
And I drink all the time
’cause we’re lovers and this is done
So we’re lovers, that’s it” (Heroes- Heroes)
“In the event of that fantastic voyage”
To turn to erosion and never old
Remember the truth, dignity is of great value
But our lives are also precious” (Fantastic Voyage- Lodger)
“Strength on high.”
Hit an all-time low…
I have never done good
Never bad
I never did anything out of the blue;
You want an ax to break the ice
I want to get down now” (Ashes to Ashes- Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
“Those midwives wear bloody gowns to history” (Teenage Wildlife-Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
“I stumble into town like a sacrificial cow
Visions of swastikas in my head
Plans for everyone
His in the apple of my eyes” (China Girl-Dance)
“See these eyes blushing.”
Bright red like a burning forest
Who made me feel close
They draw blinders and change their minds
It’s been so long… And I put out the fire with gasoline (Cat People- Let’s Go Dancing)
“Watching them come and go
Tomorrow and yesterday
Christians and unbelievers
Hanging on a cross and a nail” (Alien Lover- Tonight)
“I will paint you with gold in the morning.”
I will give you Valentine’s evenings.
Although we are strangers until now,
Let’s choose a path
Between the stars
I will leave you my friend
Among the stars ” (As the World Falls Down- Labyrinth)
“It will be time to crawl”
Until I’m lost in the 21st century” (Time Crawl- Never Overwhelms Me)
“If your mother won’t break the cage then” (Glass Spider- Never Down With Me)
“These are silver wings
These are golden eyes
These clouds float
An angel to life”.
“Speely plan
It falls from me
My poor soul
All passions are broken
All your desires
A shoe to ride on me
I’m so glad
That we are strangers when we are in front” (Newcomers with Meet- Buddha Suburbia)
“She’s not always friendly to Diamond
Sitting in the Laugh Motel
A dirty lesson of the heart
With her a hundred miles to hell…now others
O how fantastic is the death of the abyss” (L. Sordes Cordis – Extra)
“And now I don’t just want to be quiet
And I think something terrible is going to happen.
“He who has lost his name
Descending feels anxiety
Left in the streets, between the ages
Millennium behind” (Ramona A. Stone- Foris)
“The pain must feel like snow”
There you are
Cover me, cover me
He flew us on his wings
We were dead high in the air
And it will never come down here” (The Most Wanted Beginning – Extra)
“Funny How Secrets Go” (Deranged- Extra)
“The gods have made me forget
and I forgot them
Shadow listen to me
I play among their graves” (Seven-Hours)
“Memories that fly like bats out of hell
Stab you from the city of fins
Life was not such a balance
Or a piece of paper lying down written on…
Don’t let us know we’re invisible” (Bring Me the Disco King-re)
