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.
IGGY POPWhat some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.
More Iggy Pop Quotes
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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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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 never say never about anything.
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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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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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Music is life, and life is not a business.
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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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Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.
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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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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’m bored, I’m the chairman of the board.
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If I don’t terrorize, I’m not Pop.
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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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Really good music isn’t just to be heard, you know? It’s almost like a hallucination
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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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