Bowie’s a real man, and I’m a real woman – just like Catherine Deneuve.
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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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I’m getting older and older.
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Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.
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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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Miami’s not anybody’s poor cousin. It’s an aspiration to live in this town, not something you have to do to promote yourself like some of the larger cities.
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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’m glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they’re lying.
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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.
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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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Music is life, and life is not a business.
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Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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