Onstage I’ve been hit by a grapefruit, beercans, eggs, spit, money, cigarette butts, Mandies, Quaaludes, joints, bras, panties, and a fist.
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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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 don’t terrorize, I’m not Pop.
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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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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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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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It is very important what not to do.
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I’m glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they’re lying.
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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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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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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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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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The 2 things I like the most are girls and loud noises.
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Music is life, and life is not a business.
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Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.
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What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.
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