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 BOWIEI 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.
More David Bowie Quotes
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I’ve come to the realisation that I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing half the time.
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I’m drawn between the light and dark.
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Secret thinker sometimes listening aloud.
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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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I think the only music I didn’t listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.
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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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Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.
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Time may change me, but I can’t trace time.
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If you come from art, you’ll always be art.
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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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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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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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The minute you know you’re on safe ground, you’re dead.
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I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.
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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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