I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn’t going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.
IGGY POPCurious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.
More Iggy Pop Quotes
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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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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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Bowie’s a real man, and I’m a real woman – just like Catherine Deneuve.
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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.
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It is very important what not to do.
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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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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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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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The 2 things I like the most are girls and loud noises.
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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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Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.
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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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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 kinda feel like everything comes full circle in life, even though that’s a cliche.
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