I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don’t believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.
IGGY POPPussy power’s pulling me down, down, down, down. When it’s there and I can’t have it, I get real real rabid.
More Iggy Pop Quotes
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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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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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Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.
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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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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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Bowie’s a real man, and I’m a real woman – just like Catherine Deneuve.
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I never say never about anything.
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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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What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.
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If I don’t terrorize, I’m not Pop.
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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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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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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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I’m glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they’re lying.
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