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Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.

David Bowie

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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Album Gravity Happiness Hate Isolation Lonely Music Myself Sad
The end comes when the infinites arrive.
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Arrival End Infinity
Comfort comes into your house first as guest, then as a host, then finally as the master.
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Comfortable Home Master Yourself
I don’t make changes to confuse anyone. I’m just searching. That’s what causes me to change. I’m just searching for myself.
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Change Confusion Myself Search
I’m not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I’m living on.
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Age Live Man Mortal Myself Potential
If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.
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Alive Live Myself Wake Up
And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They’re quite aware of what they’re going through.
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Change Children Consultation Quite Try World Yourself
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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Artist Believe Integrity Loyalty Myself People Reality Style Time
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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Fame Reward Thinking Yourself
Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.
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Choice Civilization Creation Style Yourself
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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Build Compulsion Life Live Notice Ourselves Pattern
It would be positively boring if minds were in tune.
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Boredom Mindset Music Positive Rhythm
They people mistake fashion for style.
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Fashion Mistake One Liner People Style
Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived.
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Appearance Choice Expression Perceive Reputation Way
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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Body Challenge Death Disturb Life Yourself
I think the only music I didn’t listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.
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Country Hold Listening Music Myself Thinking Western

Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.

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