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 POPBowie’s a real man, and I’m a real woman – just like Catherine Deneuve.
More Iggy Pop Quotes
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Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.
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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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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.
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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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Really good music isn’t just to be heard, you know? It’s almost like a hallucination
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Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
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Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.
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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 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’ll love you when my eyes are open, I’ll love you when my eyes are gone.
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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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I never say never about anything.
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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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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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It is very important what not to do.
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