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David Bowie

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.
DAVID BOWIE

Fear People Religion Spiritual
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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Art Author Necessary Reading Stability Voice
I can ask for cigarettes in every language.
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Funny Language Myself Smoking
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.
DAVID BOWIE

Deep Expression Intrigue Life Music Myself World
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
Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.
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Choice Civilization Creation Style Yourself
I’ve been putting out the fire with gasoline.
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Chemical Fire Myself
Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.
DAVID BOWIE

Body Challenge Death Disturb Life Yourself
In your fear, seek only peace. In your fear, seek only love.
DAVID BOWIE

Fear Love Peace Seek Yourself
I re-invented my image so many times that I’m in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.
DAVID BOWIE

Invention Myself Original Time Woman
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 BOWIE

Dreams Myself Quite Relax Sleep Stage
Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth.
DAVID BOWIE

Smoking Time Yourself
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
Secret thinker sometimes listening aloud.
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Aloud Listening Secret Thinking
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 BOWIE

Alive Artist Home Myself Sad See
Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived.
DAVID BOWIE

Appearance Choice Expression Perceive Reputation Way
You can’t stand still on one point for your entire life.
DAVID BOWIE

Life Stand Yourself
It was fun to be clever.
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Clever Fun One Liner
You can neither win nor lose if you don’t run the race
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Lose Race Run Win Yourself
Time may change me, but I can’t trace time.
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Change Myself Time Trace
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
I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.
DAVID BOWIE

Human Myself Need Response
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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Emotional Father Love Rule Talk Togetherness
If you come from art, you’ll always be art.
DAVID BOWIE

Art Artist Self Love Yourself
Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.
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Appearance Dance Fashion Instagram Captions Shoes
Look up here, I’m in heaven.
DAVID BOWIE

Heaven Myself
I think the only music I didn’t listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.
DAVID BOWIE

Country Hold Listening Music Myself Thinking Western

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