"The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time."
-David Bowie
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"I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.“
-David Bowie
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"I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth."
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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."
-David Bowie
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"I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic."
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"There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much."
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"I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody."
-David Bowie
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"Without music, life would be a mistake."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"If music be the food of love, play on."
-William Shakespeare
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"Love is a friendship set to music."
-Joseph Campbell
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"Develop an interest in life as you see it the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."
-Henry Miller
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"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary."
-Martin Luther
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"Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul."
-Johann Sebastian Bach
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