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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.

David Bowie

The only art I’ll ever study is stuff I can steal from.
DAVID BOWIE

Art Music Myself Steal Study
You can neither win nor lose if you don’t run the race
DAVID BOWIE

Lose Race Run Win Yourself
I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out of my league.
DAVID BOWIE

Easy heavy Myself Writing
Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.
DAVID BOWIE

Dictionary Love Myself Poem Reading
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
Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth.
DAVID BOWIE

Smoking Time Yourself
My sexual nature is irrelevant. I’m an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself.
DAVID BOWIE

Actor Fragment Myself Nature Play Role Sexual
People look to me to see what the spirit of the Seventies is.
DAVID BOWIE

Age Audience Fans Myself People See Spirit Time
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
You can begin really looking for a relationship . . . when you can (appreciate) the whole concept of giving to someone, not just taking.
DAVID BOWIE

Concept Generosity Relationship Yourself
If you come from art, you’ll always be art.
DAVID BOWIE

Art Artist Self Love Yourself
All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author. There is no authoritative voice. There are only multiple readings.
DAVID BOWIE

Art Author Necessary Reading Stability Voice
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
I hate albums that are really happy. When I am really happy, I don’t like to hear happy albums, and when I am really sad I don’t wanna hear happy albums… and I tend to gravitate towards the lonely and isolated anyway when I write.
DAVID BOWIE

Album Gravity Happiness Hate Isolation Lonely Music Myself Sad
I don’t have stylistic loyalty. That’s why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.
DAVID BOWIE

Artist Believe Integrity Loyalty Myself People Reality Style Time
Trust nothing but your own experience.
DAVID BOWIE

Experience Independent Trust Yourself

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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