Really good music isn’t just to be heard, you know? It’s almost like a hallucination
IGGY POPSomething 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.
More Iggy Pop Quotes
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If I don’t terrorize, I’m not Pop.
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I’m getting older and older.
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The Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame was a great idea when it started, but I think they ought to close it, I think it’s full.
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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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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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If I started thinking too much about how influential I’ve been, then I’d be more of a turd than I already am.
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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.
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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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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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I’m glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they’re lying.
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Music is life, and life is not a business.
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The most successful stuff is sold to you as indispensable social information. The message in the music is, ‘We are terribly, terribly slick and suave, and if you listen to us, you can probably get a leg up in society, too.’
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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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It is very important what not to do.
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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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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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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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I’m bored, I’m the chairman of the board.
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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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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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I never say never about anything.
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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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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.
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Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
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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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