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 POPCurious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.
More Iggy Pop Quotes
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The 2 things I like the most are girls and loud noises.
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I kinda feel like everything comes full circle in life, even though that’s a cliche.
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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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Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I’m getting older and older.
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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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Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
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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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I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.
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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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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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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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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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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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