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.
DAVID BOWIEThere’s a terror in knowing what the world is about.
More David Bowie Quotes
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You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.
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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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Speak in extremes, it’ll save you time.
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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.
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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.
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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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Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.
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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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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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In your fear, seek only peace. In your fear, seek only love.
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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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You can’t stand still on one point for your entire life.
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The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
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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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Turn and face the strange.
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