If I don’t terrorize, I’m not Pop.
IGGY POPIf I started thinking too much about how influential I’ve been, then I’d be more of a turd than I already am.
More Iggy Pop Quotes
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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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I kinda feel like everything comes full circle in life, even though that’s a cliche.
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It is very important what not to do.
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And it’s a – it’s a term that’s based on contempt; it’s a term that’s based on fashion, style, elitism, satanism, and, everything that’s rotten about rock ‘n’ roll.
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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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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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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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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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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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Really good music isn’t just to be heard, you know? It’s almost like a hallucination
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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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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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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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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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Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
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