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.
IGGY POPThe 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.
More Iggy Pop Quotes
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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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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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I never say never about anything.
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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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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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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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The 2 things I like the most are girls and loud noises.
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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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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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Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.
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Music is life, and life is not a business.
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Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.
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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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I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.
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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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