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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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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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’ll love you when my eyes are open, I’ll love you when my eyes are gone.
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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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You know, I’m fifty-two now and I call myself a singer. Before I kick it I want to be able to carry a tune in a living room if called upon. Of course, mine come out all dark and twisted and weird.
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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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Really good music isn’t just to be heard, you know? It’s almost like a hallucination
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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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I’m bored, I’m the chairman of the board.
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What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.
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Bowie’s a real man, and I’m a real woman – just like Catherine Deneuve.
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Music is life, and life is not a business.
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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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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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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I’m getting older and older.
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