When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.
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More Iggy Pop Quotes
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Bowie’s a real man, and I’m a real woman – just like Catherine Deneuve.
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Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.
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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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If I don’t terrorize, I’m not Pop.
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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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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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The 2 things I like the most are girls and loud noises.
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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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Music is life, and life is not a business.
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I’m glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they’re lying.
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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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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 never say never about anything.
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There are no pimps, no whores, no transvestites – gone. Now that’s more the culture I’m comfortable in … I don’t like it in the house, you know what I mean, but I like it somewhere around.
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Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.
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