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 BOWIEShe asked for my love and I gave her a dangerous mind.
More David Bowie Quotes
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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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I’ve come to the realisation that I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing half the time.
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My sexual nature is irrelevant. I’m an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself.
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There’s a starman waiting in the sky, he’d like to come and meet us, but he thinks he’d blow our minds.
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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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On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.
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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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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.
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Time may change me, but I can’t trace time.
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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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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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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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I’m always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don’t even take what I am seriously.
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The media is either our salvation or our death.
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Turn and face the strange.
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