David Bowie Quotes
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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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The Internet is merely a new means of communication, that's all it is. It serves the purpose of getting information, which it is fantastic at. I mean, I live by the Internet in terms of research and it's incredible - there's nothing that you can't find out about. It's not stopped me going to bookshops but I must say that I don't go into as many because any book I want.
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We were terribly excited, and I think we took it on our shoulders that we were creating the 21st century in 1971. That was the idea. And we wanted to just blast everything in the past, rather like the vorticists did at the beginning of the century in the Britain or the dadaists did Europe, you know. It was the same sensibility of everything is rubbish, and all rubbish is wonderful.
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Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.
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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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Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don't think I'm camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage.
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I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.
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If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.
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Fame puts you there where things are hollow.
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Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.
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I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.
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I thought that I could do some kind of vehicle involving rock musicals and presenting rock and characters and storyline in a completely different fashion.
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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 don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.
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You can neither win nor lose if you don't run the race
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I get offered so many bad movies. And they're all raging queens or transvestites or Martians.
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Secret thinker sometimes listening aloud.
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I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human. I felt very very puny as a human. I thought, 'Fuck that. I want to be a superman.'
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The minute you know you're on safe ground, you're dead.
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I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.
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One day I realized that I really needed to stop losing myself in my work and in my addictions. What happens is you just wake up one morning and feel absolutely dead. You can't even drag your soul back into your body. You feel you have negated everything that is wonderful about life. When you have fallen that far, it feels like a miracle when you regain your love of life. That's when you can begin really looking for a relationship. When you can appreciate the whole concept of giving to someone, not just taking.
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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 know, I don't feel fifty. I feel not a day over forty-nine. It's incredible. I'm bouncy, I feel bouncy.
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If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.