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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.

Iggy Pop

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.
IGGY POP

Palaces People Uptight
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 POP

People Sex Trying
Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.
IGGY POP

Culture Skins
If I don’t terrorize, I’m not Pop.
IGGY POP

Country People Pops Terrorize
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.
IGGY POP

Blow Day Good Past
I have a hot memory, but I know I’ve forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
IGGY POP

Hot Memories Survival
Bowie’s a real man, and I’m a real woman – just like Catherine Deneuve.
IGGY POP

Bowie Men Real
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.
IGGY POP

Garden Use Yards
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.
IGGY POP

Basketball Football Play Scuba
Onstage I’ve been hit by a grapefruit, beercans, eggs, spit, money, cigarette butts, Mandies, Quaaludes, joints, bras, panties, and a fist.
IGGY POP

Eggs Fists Joints
Really good music isn’t just to be heard, you know? It’s almost like a hallucination
IGGY POP

Hallucinations Heard Music
Stages are getting higher and higher, and I’m getting older and older.
IGGY POP

Getting Getting Older High Stage
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
IGGY POP

Car Illegal Riding Things
Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.
IGGY POP

Curious Pay Unexpected
I’ll love you when my eyes are open, I’ll love you when my eyes are gone.
IGGY POP

Eye Gone Love You
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.
IGGY POP

Come Produce Sound

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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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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