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 BOWIETime takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth.
More David Bowie Quotes
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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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The moment you know you know you know.
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Look up here, I’m in heaven.
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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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You can’t stand still on one point for your entire life.
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Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.
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I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.
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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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I’m not sure whether it is me changing my mind, or whether I lie a lot.
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Speak in extremes, it’ll save you time.
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I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.
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I met my wife because we were both going out with the same guy.
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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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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 very shy. That’s probably one of the reasons I got so heavily into drugs.
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And I think my spaceship knows which way to go.
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I can ask for cigarettes in every language.
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In my madness I see your face in mine.
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I have found myself deeply, deeply intrigued by the ska-punk scene. It’s such an expressive form of popular music, it’s so real, it’s got so much life: it’s the most vital music in the world.
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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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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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I’ll place my love beneath the stars.
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I’m always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don’t even take what I am seriously.
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I was always accused of being cold and unfeeling. It was because I was intimidated about touching people.
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