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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.

David Bowie

As 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?
DAVID BOWIE

Myself Old Question Time
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
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 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.
DAVID BOWIE

Build Compulsion Life Live Notice Ourselves Pattern
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
In my madness I see your face in mine.
DAVID BOWIE

Face Madness Myself See
Look up here, I’m in heaven.
DAVID BOWIE

Heaven Myself
Trust nothing but your own experience.
DAVID BOWIE

Experience Independent Trust Yourself
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
Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.
DAVID BOWIE

Dictionary Love Myself Poem Reading
Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.
DAVID BOWIE

Appearance Dance Fashion Instagram Captions Shoes
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
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.
DAVID BOWIE

Ghost Hands Music Myself Understand
It would be positively boring if minds were in tune.
DAVID BOWIE

Boredom Mindset Music Positive Rhythm
Secret thinker sometimes listening aloud.
DAVID BOWIE

Aloud Listening Secret Thinking
Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.
DAVID BOWIE

Average Fame Interest Man

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 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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