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 BOWIEThe only art I’ll ever study is stuff I can steal from.
More David Bowie Quotes
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I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.
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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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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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Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.
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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 think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants.
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Turn and face the strange.
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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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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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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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The media is either our salvation or our death.
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You can’t stand still on one point for your entire life.
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Make the best of every moment. We’re not evolving. We’re not going anywhere.
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The moment you know you know you know.
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