It is very important what not to do.
IGGY POPI have a hot memory, but I know I’ve forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
More Iggy Pop Quotes
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What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.
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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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Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.
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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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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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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 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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Music is life, and life is not a business.
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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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The 2 things I like the most are girls and loud noises.
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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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Really good music isn’t just to be heard, you know? It’s almost like a hallucination
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I kinda feel like everything comes full circle in life, even though that’s a cliche.
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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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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 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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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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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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Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.
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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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