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Music is life, and life is not a business.

Iggy Pop

I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don’t believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.
IGGY POP

Believe Boys Whales
Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.
IGGY POP

Curious Pay Unexpected
Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
IGGY POP

Country Easy Easy Going People
Bowie’s a real man, and I’m a real woman – just like Catherine Deneuve.
IGGY POP

Bowie Men Real
I’m not a singer, a walking instrument like Aretha Franklin. When you get an Iggy Pop record, you don’t get “Iggy Sings.” I am also a style of music, an approach.
IGGY POP

Records Singers Style
I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.
IGGY POP

Bother Done Torn
I have a hot memory, but I know I’ve forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
IGGY POP

Hot Memories Survival
Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there’s a current and just stare into the water. I don’t fish, I don’t hunt, I don’t scuba, I don’t spear, don’t boat, don’t play basketball or football – I excel at staring into space. I’m really good at that.
IGGY POP

Basketball Football Play Scuba
If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that’s such a rare gift. It’s underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.
IGGY POP

Feelings Giving People
Onstage I’ve been hit by a grapefruit, beercans, eggs, spit, money, cigarette butts, Mandies, Quaaludes, joints, bras, panties, and a fist.
IGGY POP

Eggs Fists Joints
I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, ‘Wow, I’m really great-looking.’… I think I’m the greatest, anyway.
IGGY POP

Mirrors Thinking Wow
Really good music isn’t just to be heard, you know? It’s almost like a hallucination
IGGY POP

Hallucinations Heard Music
Second only to the sea, the Miami sky has been the greatest comfort in my life past 50. On a good day, when the wind blows from the south, the light here is diffuse and forgiving.
IGGY POP

Blow Day Good Past
If I don’t terrorize, I’m not Pop.
IGGY POP

Country People Pops Terrorize
And it’s a – it’s a term that’s based on contempt; it’s a term that’s based on fashion, style, elitism, satanism, and, everything that’s rotten about rock ‘n’ roll.
IGGY POP

Fashion Rocks Style
Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.
IGGY POP

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