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 POPI’ll love you when my eyes are open, I’ll love you when my eyes are gone.
More Iggy Pop Quotes
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It is very important what not to do.
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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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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 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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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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Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.
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I’m bored, I’m the chairman of the board.
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I kinda feel like everything comes full circle in life, even though that’s a cliche.
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Bowie’s a real man, and I’m a real woman – just like Catherine Deneuve.
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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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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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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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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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The 2 things I like the most are girls and loud noises.
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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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