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David Bowie

I was always accused of being cold and unfeeling. It was because I was intimidated about touching people.
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Cold Fear Feeling Intimation People Touch
There’s a terror in knowing what the world is about.
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Fear Terror World
All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author. There is no authoritative voice. There are only multiple readings.
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Art Author Necessary Reading Stability Voice
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.
DAVID BOWIE

Dreams Existence Myself Reality Time
If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.
DAVID BOWIE

Alive Live Myself Wake Up
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.
DAVID BOWIE

Ghost Hands Music Myself Understand
I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.
DAVID BOWIE

Buddhism Influence Myself Quite Study Young
Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.
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Appearance Dance Fashion Instagram Captions Shoes
The end comes when the infinites arrive.
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Arrival End Infinity
Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you’re pretty much on the way out.
DAVID BOWIE

Alive Lose Way Wonder Yourself
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.
DAVID BOWIE

Alive Artist Home Myself Sad See
The media is either our salvation or our death.
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Death Media Ourselves Salvation
It’s a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there’s a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that’s how some of us conduct our lives.
DAVID BOWIE

Build Compulsion Life Live Notice Ourselves Pattern
For me a chameleon is something that disguises itself to look as much like its environment as possible. I always thought I did exactly the opposite of that.
DAVID BOWIE

Disguise Environment Myself Opposite Possible
I’m not sure whether it is me changing my mind, or whether I lie a lot.
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Change Lying Mindset Myself
Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.
DAVID BOWIE

Feeling God Man Mindset Myself Presence State World

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