641 Quotes by David Bowie

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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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    I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.

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    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?

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    It always felt like you were trying too hard to look like the audience or something. That whole thing about the artistic integrity, which, of course, I’ve never bought into – with any artist. It’s just not a real thing.

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    Some make you sing and some make you scream. One makes you wish that you’d never been seen. But there’s a shop on the corner that’s selling papier mache, making bullet-proof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay. If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.

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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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    There’s something about the style of living in the country that they feel, “This is what represents me.” So style is about the philosophy of how we create our civilization.

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    There’s a terror in knowing what the world is about.

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    Once I’ve written something it does tend to run away from me. I don’t seem to have any part of it – it’s no longer my piece of writing.

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