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If You Feel Safe In The Area You’re Working In, You’re Not Working In The Right Area. Always Go A Little Further Into The Water Than You Feel You’re Capable Of Being In. Go A Little Bit Out Of Your Depth. And When You Don’t Feel That Your Feet Are Quite Touching The Bottom, You’re Just About In The Right Place To Do Something Exciting.

-David Bowie

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If You Feel Safe

David Bowie

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If You Feel Safe In The Area You’re Working In, You’re Not Working In The Right Area. Always Go A Little Further Into The Water Than You Feel You’re Capable Of Being In. Go A Little Bit Out Of Your Depth. And When You Don’t Feel That Your Feet Are Quite Touching The Bottom, You’re Just About In The Right Place To Do Something Exciting.

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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.

My Mother Was A Housewife. Both From - Well, My Father Was From A Farming Family, Agricultural Family In The North Of England. And My Mother Came From A Very Working Class.

Elvis Was A Major Hero Of Mine. I Was Probably Stupid Enough To Believe That Having The Same Birthday As Him Actually Meant Something.

I Never Really Got The Book Together For The Thing, So I Had All The Songs And The Characters. But By The Time We'd Gotten It On The Road And I'd Been Doing It For 18 Months, Oh God, I Couldn't Wait To Move On To Something Else.

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.

For Me A Chameleon Is Something That Disguises Itself To Look As Much Like Its Environment As Possible. I Always Thought I Did Exactly The Opposite Of That.

Sits Like A Man, But Smiles Like A Reptile.

When You Think About It, Adolf Hitler Was The First Pop Star.

Rock Has Always Been The Devil's Music... I Believe That Rock & Roll Is Dangerous... I Feel That We're Only Heralding Something Even Darker Than Ourselves.

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