I have a hot memory, but I know I’ve forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
IGGY POPYour skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.
More Iggy Pop Quotes
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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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Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I’m getting older and older.
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What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.
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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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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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If I don’t terrorize, I’m not Pop.
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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 believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don’t believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.
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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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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.
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I kinda feel like everything comes full circle in life, even though that’s a cliche.
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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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I never say never about anything.
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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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