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.
DAVID BOWIEOn 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.
More David Bowie Quotes
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I re-invented my image so many times that I’m in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.
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Rock has always been the devil’s music… I believe that rock & roll is dangerous… I feel that we’re only heralding something even darker than ourselves.
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Look up here, I’m in heaven.
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She asked for my love and I gave her a dangerous mind.
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I’m a born librarian with a sex drive.
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I’m regarded quite asexually by a lot of people. And the people that understand me the best are nearer to what I understand about me.
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Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth.
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The minute you know you’re on safe ground, you’re dead.
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I could never, ever talk to my father. I really loved him, but we couldn’t talk about anything together. There was this really British thing that being even remotely emotional was absolutely verboten.
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In my madness I see your face in mine.
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It makes me sad when I see artists who come alive when they go onstage, because, gee, I really come alive when I’m home.
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I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants.
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You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.
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Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.
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Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you’re pretty much on the way out.
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Never bored, so I’ll never get old.
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Speak in extremes, it’ll save you time.
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I can ask for cigarettes in every language.
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Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.
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There’s a terror in knowing what the world is about.
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It was fun to be clever.
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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.
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If you come from art, you’ll always be art.
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Make the best of every moment. We’re not evolving. We’re not going anywhere.
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Comfort comes into your house first as guest, then as a host, then finally as the master.
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You should turn around at the end of the day and say I really like that piece of work, or that piece of work sucked. Not, was that popular or wasn’t it popular?
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