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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.

Iggy Pop

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 POP

People Sex Trying
If I don’t terrorize, I’m not Pop.
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Country People Pops Terrorize
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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Records Singers Style
I’m bored, I’m the chairman of the board.
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Boards Bored Work
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.
IGGY POP

Fashion Rocks Style
I have a hot memory, but I know I’ve forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
IGGY POP

Hot Memories Survival
I’m glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they’re lying.
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Art Crazy Lying
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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House Mean Pimp
Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
IGGY POP

Country Easy Easy Going People
I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, ‘Wow, I’m really great-looking.’… I think I’m the greatest, anyway.
IGGY POP

Mirrors Thinking Wow
I’ll love you when my eyes are open, I’ll love you when my eyes are gone.
IGGY POP

Eye Gone Love You
Onstage I’ve been hit by a grapefruit, beercans, eggs, spit, money, cigarette butts, Mandies, Quaaludes, joints, bras, panties, and a fist.
IGGY POP

Eggs Fists Joints
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.
IGGY POP

Palaces People Uptight
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.
IGGY POP

Dark Tunes Two
If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that’s such a rare gift. It’s underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.
IGGY POP

Feelings Giving People
The Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame was a great idea when it started, but I think they ought to close it, I think it’s full.
IGGY POP

Ideas Rocks Thinking
If I started thinking too much about how influential I’ve been, then I’d be more of a turd than I already am.
IGGY POP

Influential Much Thinking Too
Pussy power’s pulling me down, down, down, down. When it’s there and I can’t have it, I get real real rabid.
IGGY POP

Pulling Pussy Real
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.
IGGY POP

Come Produce Sound
Bowie’s a real man, and I’m a real woman – just like Catherine Deneuve.
IGGY POP

Bowie Men Real
What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.
IGGY POP

Antics People Shows
I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.
IGGY POP

Bother Done Torn
It is very important what not to do.
IGGY POP

Feel Important People Very
Really good music isn’t just to be heard, you know? It’s almost like a hallucination
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Hallucinations Heard Music
I never say never about anything.
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never Say
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.
IGGY POP

Blow Day Good Past
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.
IGGY POP

Beautiful Diamond Nuts

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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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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