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If I started thinking too much about how influential I’ve been, then I’d be more of a turd than I already am.

Iggy Pop

You know, I’m fifty-two now and I call myself a singer. Before I kick it I want to be able to carry a tune in a living room if called upon. Of course, mine come out all dark and twisted and weird.
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Dark Tunes Two
Stages are getting higher and higher, and I’m getting older and older.
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Getting Getting Older High Stage
What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.
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Antics People Shows
I’m glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they’re lying.
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Art Crazy Lying
I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, ‘Wow, I’m really great-looking.’… I think I’m the greatest, anyway.
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Mirrors Thinking Wow
The nut of the thing is that if what you make is hard like a diamond, you can put it anywhere. You can put it up your and it will still be beautiful.
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Beautiful Diamond Nuts
Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.
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Curious Pay Unexpected
It is very important what not to do.
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Feel Important People Very
I have a hot memory, but I know I’ve forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
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Hot Memories Survival
Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
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Country Easy Easy Going People
I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn’t going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.
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Anything Creative Fire Kids Nice
The Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame was a great idea when it started, but I think they ought to close it, I think it’s full.
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Ideas Rocks Thinking
Miami’s not anybody’s poor cousin. It’s an aspiration to live in this town, not something you have to do to promote yourself like some of the larger cities.
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Cities Cousins Towns
Well, it wasn’t like I was going to run out and score heroin and score an ounce of coke – but incidentally, on the road, I would usually get tanked up and as stoned as I possibly could to go on stage. And offstage, it would be a demon that would come up about twice a week.
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Coke Heroin Ounce Running
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.
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Feelings Giving People
Music is life, and life is not a business.
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Business Life Music

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