I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, ‘Wow, I’m really great-looking.’… I think I’m the greatest, anyway.
IGGY POPThe 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.
More Iggy Pop Quotes
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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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Bowie’s a real man, and I’m a real woman – just like Catherine Deneuve.
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I’m bored, I’m the chairman of the board.
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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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It is very important what not to do.
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I kinda feel like everything comes full circle in life, even though that’s a cliche.
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Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
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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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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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I’ll love you when my eyes are open, I’ll love you when my eyes are gone.
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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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I never say never about anything.
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The nut of the thing is that if what you make is hard like a diamond, you can put it anywhere. You can put it up your and it will still be beautiful.
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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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