I’ve been putting out the fire with gasoline.

David Bowie

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Chemical

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.

DAVID BOWIE

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.
DAVID BOWIE

Change Children Consultation Quite Try World
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 People Reality Style Time
Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence.
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Choice People Run Silence Small Togetherness
I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out of my league.
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Easy heavy Writing
I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.

DAVID BOWIE

I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.
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Buddhism Influence Quite Study Young
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.

DAVID BOWIE

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.
DAVID BOWIE

Expression Happiness Joy Method
You should turn around at the end of the day and say I really like that piece of work, or that piece of work sucked. Not, was that popular or wasn’t it popular?

DAVID BOWIE

You should turn around at the end of the day and say I really like that piece of work, or that piece of work sucked. Not, was that popular or wasn’t it popular?
DAVID BOWIE

Day End Music Pieces Popular Work
I’m not sure whether it is me changing my mind, or whether I lie a lot.

DAVID BOWIE

I’m not sure whether it is me changing my mind, or whether I lie a lot.
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Change Lying Mindset
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

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 Poem Reading
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?
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Old Question Time
The media is either our salvation or our death.

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The media is either our salvation or our death.
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Death Media Salvation
If you come from art, you’ll always be art.

DAVID BOWIE

If you come from art, you’ll always be art.
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Art Artist Love Self Love
I’ve been putting out the fire with gasoline.

DAVID BOWIE

I’ve been putting out the fire with gasoline.
DAVID BOWIE

Chemical
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

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 Pattern
I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.
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Finding Freedom
I’m drawn between the light and dark.

DAVID BOWIE

I’m drawn between the light and dark.
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Darkness Light

I’ve been putting out the fire with gasoline.

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