I’m glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they’re lying.
IGGY POPBowie’s a real man, and I’m a real woman – just like Catherine Deneuve.
More Iggy Pop Quotes
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I spent most of the eighties, most of my life, riding around in somebody else’s car, in possession of, or ingested of, something illegal, on my way from something illegal to something illegal with many illegal things happening all around me
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The most successful stuff is sold to you as indispensable social information. The message in the music is, ‘We are terribly, terribly slick and suave, and if you listen to us, you can probably get a leg up in society, too.’
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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.
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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.
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Bowie’s a real man, and I’m a real woman – just like Catherine Deneuve.
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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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Music is life, and life is not a business.
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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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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.
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Really good music isn’t just to be heard, you know? It’s almost like a hallucination
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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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Well, I don’t use the toilet much to pee in. I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee on my estate.
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Pussy power’s pulling me down, down, down, down. When it’s there and I can’t have it, I get real real rabid.
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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.
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What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.
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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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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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Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
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I never say never about anything.
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My general take on American music since 1969 is that it’s just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight – audience, performance, and palace guard.
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I kinda feel like everything comes full circle in life, even though that’s a cliche.
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I’ll love you when my eyes are open, I’ll love you when my eyes are gone.
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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.
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I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I’m getting older and older.
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And if somebody’s going to produce me, they should be producing my sound for me. And that’s something I have to come up with myself.
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