The 2 things I like the most are girls and loud noises.
IGGY POPWhen 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.
More Iggy Pop Quotes
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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 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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Bowie’s a real man, and I’m a real woman – just like Catherine Deneuve.
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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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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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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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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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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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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’ll love you when my eyes are open, I’ll love you when my eyes are gone.
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Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.
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It is very important what not to do.
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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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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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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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