The passing of rock legend David Bowie came so sudden that it left celebrities like Howard Stern shocked and saddened. Bowie passed just days after the release of his album Blackstar which showcased why he was known as an innovator and is a legend in the pop/rock genres. To pay tribute to his career who decided to compile 30 Amazing David Bowie Quotes to Remember Him By.
One day prior to the release of the Blackstar album, Bowie released the music video for his new track “Lazarus” which continued to add another notch in his list of legendary visuals for his music. Bowie made music that transcended time and today artists from The Weeknd to Justin Bieber all paid their respects to one of the true musical geniuses. 
David Bowie passed away at the age of 69 after an 18 month battle with cancer, according to a message posted to his social media accounts. Bowie was also surrounded by is family and said to have passed peacefully. Music has lost another great talent but Bowie will live on through his incredible discography as well as the countless quotes he has shared along the years. You can relive some of those quotes by checking out out 30 Amazing David Bowie Quotes to Remember Him By below.
“I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.”
“You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.”
“I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I thought, “F**k that. I want to be a superhuman.”
“You can neither win nor lose if you don’t run the race.”
“The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation.”
“I suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture I was living in.”
“I re-invented my image so many times that I’m in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.”
“I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.”
“Fame itself… doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.”
“We spent endless hours talking about fame, and what it’s like not having a life of your own any more. How much you want to be known before you are, and then when you are, how much you want the reverse.” -Bowie details his talks with John Lennon
“To not be modest about it, you’ll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I’ve worked with have done their best work by far with me.”
“I feel that I’ve consistently written about the same subjects for 35 … nearly 40 years. There’s really been no room for change with me. It’s all despondency, despair, fear, isolation, abandonment.”
“Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.”
“I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.”
“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.”
“My performances have got to be theatrical experiences for me as well as for the audience. I don’t want to climb out of my fantasies in order to go up onstage — I want to take them on stage with me.”
“I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.”
“Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it’s like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You’d better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that’s really the only unique situation that’s going to be left.”
“You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I’m a pop singer for Christ’s sake.”
“What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time.”
“I’m looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.”
“The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.”
“I don’t know how many times someone has come up to me and said, ‘Hey, Lets dance!’. I hate dancing. God, it’s stupid.”
“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.”
“I’m always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don’t even take what I am seriously.”
“That’s the shock: All clichés are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God – so do I buy that one? If all the other clichés are true… Hell, don’t pose me that one.”
“As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn’t really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn’t have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself. I continued designing characters with their own complete personalities and environments. I put them into interviews with me! Rather than be me — which must be incredibly boring to anyone — I’d take Ziggy in, or Aladdin Sane or The Thin White Duke. It was a very strange thing to do.”
“I was virtually trying anything… And I think I have done just about everything that it’s possible to do – except really dangerous things, like being an explorer. But anything that Western culture has to offer – I’ve put myself through it.”
“Make the best of every moment. We’re not evolving. We’re not going anywhere.”
“I can ask for cigarettes in every language.”