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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.

Iggy Pop

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
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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People Sex Trying
It is very important what not to do.
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Feel Important People Very
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 POP

Cities Cousins Towns
Stages are getting higher and higher, and I’m getting older and older.
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Getting Getting Older High Stage
I’ll love you when my eyes are open, I’ll love you when my eyes are gone.
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Eye Gone Love You
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
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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Palaces People Uptight
Onstage I’ve been hit by a grapefruit, beercans, eggs, spit, money, cigarette butts, Mandies, Quaaludes, joints, bras, panties, and a fist.
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Eggs Fists Joints
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
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
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
If I don’t terrorize, I’m not Pop.
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Country People Pops Terrorize
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
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.
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Blow Day Good Past
Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
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Country Easy Easy Going People

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