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“Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming”
-- David Bowie

#Tomorrow
“People are always throwing things at me that I've said and I say that I didn't mean anything.”
-- David Bowie

#Mean #People #Said
“Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.”
-- David Bowie

#Shoes #Red
“I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.”
-- David Bowie

#School #Artist #Thinking
“I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.”
-- David Bowie

#Music #Stars #Water
“You can't stand still on one point for your entire life.”
-- David Bowie

#Stills
“I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants.”
-- David Bowie

#Thinking #Fame #Restaurants
“I'm not sure whether it is me changing my mind, or whether I lie a lot.”
-- David Bowie

#Lying #Mind #Not Sure
“Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out...”
-- David Bowie

#Alive #Way #Wonder
“I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.”
-- David Bowie

#Liars #Awful #Agree
“I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.”
-- David Bowie

#People #Amazed
“I went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both classes, so I have a pretty fair idea of how people live and why they do it.”
-- David Bowie

#School #Class #Ideas
“I can ask for cigarettes in every language”
-- David Bowie

#Smoking #Language #Cigarette
“Critics I don't understand. They get too intellectual. They're not very well-versed in street talk; it takes them longer to say it. So they have to do it in dictionaries and they take longer to say it.”
-- David Bowie

#Intellectual #Critics #Wells
“Ground control to Major Tom.”
-- David Bowie

#Expression
“People look to me to see what the spirit of the Seventies is.”
-- David Bowie

#People #Looks #Spirit
“Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.”
-- David Bowie

#Song #Mean #Interesting
“I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me, because it's not their profession to do that.”
-- David Bowie

#Writing #Kids #People
“You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.”
-- David Bowie

#Stars #Thinking #Rocks
“I have to take total control myself. I can't let anybody else do anything, for I find that I can do things better for me. I don't want to get other people playing with what they think that I'm trying to do.”
-- David Bowie

#Thinking #People #Trying
“I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.”
-- David Bowie

#Men #Demise #Stones
“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.”
-- David Bowie

#Brother #School #Views
“I once asked [John] Lennon what he thought of what I do. He said 'it's great, but its just rock and roll with lipstick on'.”
-- David Bowie

#Rocks #Rock And Roll #Lennon
“I don't expect the human race to progress in too many areas. However, having a child with an ear infection makes one hugely grateful for antibiotics.”
-- David Bowie

#Children #Grateful #Race
“I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.”
-- David Bowie

#Mother #Sex #Thinking
“Trust nothing but your own experience.”
-- David Bowie
“I'm quite certain that the audience that I've got for my stuff don't listen to the lyrics.”
-- David Bowie

#Stuff #Certain #Audience
“You write down a paragraph or two describing several different subjects creating a kind of story ingredients-list, I suppose, and then cut the sentences into four or five-word sections; mix em up and reconnect them. You can get some pretty interesting idea combinations like this. You can use them as is or, if you have a craven need to not lose control, bounce off these ideas and write whole new sections.”
-- David Bowie

#Writing #Cutting #Ideas
“There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I've taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write.”
-- David Bowie

#Taken #Writing #Heart
“The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.”
-- David Bowie

#Journey #Arriving #Truth Is

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