And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They’re quite aware of what they’re going through.
DAVID BOWIEI 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.
More David Bowie Quotes
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I’m drawn between the light and dark.
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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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The end comes when the infinites arrive.
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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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I’ll place my love beneath the stars.
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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.
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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.
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Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.
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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 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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People look to me to see what the spirit of the Seventies is.
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There’s a thing that just as you go to sleep, if you keep your elbows elevated that you will never go below the dream stage. And I’ve used that quite a lot and it keeps me dreaming much longer than if I just relaxed.
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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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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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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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If you come from art, you’ll always be art.
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I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.
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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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I’m not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I’m living on.
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Never bored, so I’ll never get old.
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Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.
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Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.
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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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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.
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Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.
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I have found myself deeply, deeply intrigued by the ska-punk scene. It’s such an expressive form of popular music, it’s so real, it’s got so much life: it’s the most vital music in the world.
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