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.
IGGY POPI’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.
More Iggy Pop Quotes
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I never say never about anything.
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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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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 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 have a hot memory, but I know I’ve forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
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It is very important what not to do.
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I’m getting older and older.
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The 2 things I like the most are girls and loud noises.
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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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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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Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
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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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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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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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