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 BOWIEThere, 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.
More David Bowie Quotes
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Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.
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Speak in extremes, it’ll save you time.
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In my madness I see your face in mine.
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Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived.
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I don’t make changes to confuse anyone. I’m just searching. That’s what causes me to change. I’m just searching for myself.
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Never bored, so I’ll never get old.
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It would be positively boring if minds were in tune.
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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?
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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.
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The media is either our salvation or our death.
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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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