I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants.
DAVID BOWIEAs 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?
More David Bowie Quotes
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Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.
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Trust nothing but your own experience.
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I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.
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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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It would be positively boring if minds were in tune.
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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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I can ask for cigarettes in every language.
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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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Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth.
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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’ll place my love beneath the stars.
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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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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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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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I met my wife because we were both going out with the same guy.
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