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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I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.
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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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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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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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I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.
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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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Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.
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Secret thinker sometimes listening aloud.
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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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Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.
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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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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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If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.
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The minute you know you're on safe ground, you're dead.
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Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.
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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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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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A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle. The rock stars have assimilated all kinds of philosophies, styles, histories, writings, and they throw out what they have gleaned from that.
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[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz.
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I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.
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Fame puts you there where things are hollow.