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 POPThe 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.
More Iggy Pop Quotes
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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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It is very important what not to do.
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My general take on American music since 1969 is that it’s just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight – audience, performance, and palace guard.
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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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Bowie’s a real man, and I’m a real woman – just like Catherine Deneuve.
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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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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I’m getting older and older.
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I’m bored, I’m the chairman of the board.
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Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
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I never say never about anything.
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Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.
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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.
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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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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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I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.
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