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Music is life, and life is not a business.

Iggy Pop

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.
IGGY POP

Ideas Rocks Thinking
Miami’s not anybody’s poor cousin. It’s an aspiration to live in this town, not something you have to do to promote yourself like some of the larger cities.
IGGY POP

Cities Cousins Towns
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.
IGGY POP

Basketball Football Play Scuba
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 POP

Legs Suave Successful Terrible
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.
IGGY POP

People Sex Trying
Pussy power’s pulling me down, down, down, down. When it’s there and I can’t have it, I get real real rabid.
IGGY POP

Pulling Pussy Real
I never say never about anything.
IGGY POP

never Say
Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.
IGGY POP

Culture Skins
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.
IGGY POP

Records Singers Style
It is very important what not to do.
IGGY POP

Feel Important People Very
I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.
IGGY POP

Bother Done Torn
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
IGGY POP

Car Illegal Riding Things
Bowie’s a real man, and I’m a real woman – just like Catherine Deneuve.
IGGY POP

Bowie Men Real
Really good music isn’t just to be heard, you know? It’s almost like a hallucination
IGGY POP

Hallucinations Heard Music
Stages are getting higher and higher, and I’m getting older and older.
IGGY POP

Getting Getting Older High Stage
I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, ‘Wow, I’m really great-looking.’… I think I’m the greatest, anyway.
IGGY POP

Mirrors Thinking Wow

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