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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More Iggy Pop Quotes
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I never say never about anything.
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I’m bored, I’m the chairman of the board.
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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.’
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What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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I kinda feel like everything comes full circle in life, even though that’s a cliche.
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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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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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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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Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.
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Bowie’s a real man, and I’m a real woman – just like Catherine Deneuve.
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