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.’
IGGY POPThe 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.’
More Iggy Pop Quotes
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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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What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.
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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.
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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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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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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’ll love you when my eyes are open, I’ll love you when my eyes are gone.
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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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Bowie’s a real man, and I’m a real woman – just like Catherine Deneuve.
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I’m getting older and older.
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Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.
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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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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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