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.
IGGY POPAnd 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.
More Iggy Pop Quotes
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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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Music is life, and life is not a business.
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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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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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I never say never about anything.
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The 2 things I like the most are girls and loud noises.
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If I don’t terrorize, I’m not Pop.
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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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Bowie’s a real man, and I’m a real woman – just like Catherine Deneuve.
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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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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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It is very important what not to do.
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Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
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Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.
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I kinda feel like everything comes full circle in life, even though that’s a cliche.
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