Bowie’s a real man, and I’m a real woman – just like Catherine Deneuve.
IGGY POPCurious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.
More Iggy Pop Quotes
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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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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.
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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 I don’t terrorize, I’m not Pop.
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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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Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.
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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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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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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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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I’m getting older and older.
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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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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 never say never about anything.
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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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