Julia G
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“This is the only poem I can read. I am the only one who can write it. I didn’t kill myself when things went wrong. I didn’t turn to drugs or teaching. I tried to sleep. But when I couldn’t sleep, I learned to write. I learned to write what might be read on nights like this by one like me.”
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“Even though it was enormously successful, there was no growth going on at all. They were very hard years to get through, to find any sense of purpose. I wasn't allowing myself the service of being who I really am as an artist. I'd given myself dreadful parameters in confining myself to merely what I presumed people wanted.
I never wanted to do this. I never wanted to be out there pleasing people. I wanted to be really stubborn and have people like what I like, not give them what they like.”
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I never wanted to do this. I never wanted to be out there pleasing people. I wanted to be really stubborn and have people like what I like, not give them what they like.”
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“I needed to sing because nobody else was singing my songs.”
― The pocket book of David Bowie
― The pocket book of David Bowie

“Til there was Rock
You only had God.
- Sweet Head”
― David Bowie: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - Off the Record
You only had God.
- Sweet Head”
― David Bowie: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - Off the Record

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