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I’m always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don’t even take what I am seriously.

David Bowie

You can neither win nor lose if you don’t run the race
DAVID BOWIE

Lose Race Run Win Yourself
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.
DAVID BOWIE

Disguise Environment Myself Opposite Possible
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
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.
DAVID BOWIE

Feeling God Man Mindset Myself Presence State World
The media is either our salvation or our death.
DAVID BOWIE

Death Media Ourselves Salvation
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
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
I was always accused of being cold and unfeeling. It was because I was intimidated about touching people.
DAVID BOWIE

Cold Fear Feeling Intimation People Touch
I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.
DAVID BOWIE

Feeling Myself Need Qualify Work
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
It’s only forever, Not long at all.
DAVID BOWIE

Forever Long One Liner Time
My sexual nature is irrelevant. I’m an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself.
DAVID BOWIE

Actor Fragment Myself Nature Play Role Sexual
Rock has always been the devil’s music… I believe that rock & roll is dangerous… I feel that we’re only heralding something even darker than ourselves.
DAVID BOWIE

Believe Darkness Devil Music Ourselves
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’ve been putting out the fire with gasoline.
DAVID BOWIE

Chemical Fire Myself
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.
DAVID BOWIE

Album Gravity Happiness Hate Isolation Lonely Music Myself Sad

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