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 kinda feel like everything comes full circle in life, even though that’s a cliche.
More Iggy Pop Quotes
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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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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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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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Music is life, and life is not a business.
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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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Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
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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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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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I’ll love you when my eyes are open, I’ll love you when my eyes are gone.
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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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There are no pimps, no whores, no transvestites – gone. Now that’s more the culture I’m comfortable in … I don’t like it in the house, you know what I mean, but I like it somewhere around.
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Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.
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