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.
IGGY POPI 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
More Iggy Pop Quotes
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I’m bored, I’m the chairman of the board.
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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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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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Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.
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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 never say never about anything.
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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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Bowie’s a real man, and I’m a real woman – just like Catherine Deneuve.
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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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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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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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It is very important what not to do.
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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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Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
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