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 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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Really good music isn’t just to be heard, you know? It’s almost like a hallucination
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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 like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.
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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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Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
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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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Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.
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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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I’ll love you when my eyes are open, I’ll love you when my eyes are gone.
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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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It is very important what not to do.
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I 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
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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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Well, it wasn’t like I was going to run out and score heroin and score an ounce of coke – but incidentally, on the road, I would usually get tanked up and as stoned as I possibly could to go on stage. And offstage, it would be a demon that would come up about twice a week.
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