641 Quotes by David Bowie

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    The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

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    I haven't changed my views much since I was about 12, really, I've just got a 12-year-old mentality.When I was in school I had a brother who was into Kerouac and he gave me On The Road to read when I was 12 years old. That's still been a big influence.

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    I'm a phallus in pigtails, and there's blood on my nose, and my tissue is rotting where the rats chew my bones. And my eye sockets empty, see nothing but pain, I keep having this brainstorm about twelve times a day.

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    I think Mustique is Duchampian - it will always provide an endless source of delight.

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    The public, obviously, they takes things in a very simplest fashion and so they should. That's why we have such wonderful television.

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    On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

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    I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.

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    TV has eaten up everything else, and Warhol films are all that are left, which is fabulous. Pork could become the next I Love Lucy, the great American domestic comedy. It's about how people really live, not like Lucy, who never touched dishwater. It's about people living and hustling to survive.

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