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.
DAVID BOWIEReligion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.
More David Bowie Quotes
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Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth.
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Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence.
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My sexual nature is irrelevant. I’m an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself.
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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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I’m not sure whether it is me changing my mind, or whether I lie a lot.
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The minute you know you’re on safe ground, you’re dead.
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You can begin really looking for a relationship . . . when you can (appreciate) the whole concept of giving to someone, not just taking.
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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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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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I’m very shy. That’s probably one of the reasons I got so heavily into drugs.
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I’m a thinker not a talker.
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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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I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.
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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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I was always accused of being cold and unfeeling. It was because I was intimidated about touching people.
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