David Bowie Short Quotes

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People look to me to see what the spirit of the Seventies is.

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Look up here, I'm in heaven
I've got scars that can't be seen.

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

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The people who don't know so much about me regard me more sexually.

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All the young dudes
Carry the news
Boogaloo dudes
Carry the news.

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Still don't know what I was waiting for
And my time was running wild.

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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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I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.

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I'm quite certain that the audience that I've got for my stuff don't listen to the lyrics.

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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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People are always throwing things at me that I've said and I say that I didn't mean anything.

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I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.

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There's not much point in getting any heavier... there's too many things to read and look at.

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Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.

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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 will be king
and you
you will be queen,
though nothing will drive them away
We can be heroes
Just for one day.

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Ashes to ashes, funk to funky
We know Major Tom's a junkie
Strung out in heaven's high
Hitting an all-time low.

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I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out of my league.

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Turn and face the strange
Ch-ch-changes
Oh look out now you rock and rollers
Pretty soon now you're gonna get older.

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Sexuality and where it is going is an extraordinary question, for I don't see it going anywhere. It is with me, and that's it.

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Rebel Rebel, you've torn your dress.
Rebel Rebel, your face is a mess.
Rebel Rebel, how could they know?
Hot tramp, I love you so!

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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 younger people get into the lyrics in a different way; there's much more of a tactile understanding, which is the way I prefer it.

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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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Love is every type of relationship that you think of... I'm sure it means relationship, every type of relationship that you can think of.

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Oh you pretty things
Don't you know you're driving your
Mamas and papas insane?
Let me make it plain
You gotta make way for Homo Superior.

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Making love with his ego Ziggy sucked up into his mind
Like a leper messiah.
When the kids had killed the man I had to break up the band.

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The coming together of people I find obscene as a principle. It is not human. It is not a natural thing as some people would have us believe.

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I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I thought, "Fuck that. I want to be a superhuman."

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