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 BOWIEPut on your red shoes, and dance the blues.
More David Bowie Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.
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Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth.
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I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.
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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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Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.
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I’m regarded quite asexually by a lot of people. And the people that understand me the best are nearer to what I understand about me.
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Time may change me, but I can’t trace time.
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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’ve been putting out the fire with gasoline.
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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.
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Comfort comes into your house first as guest, then as a host, then finally as the master.
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