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.
IGGY POPI have a hot memory, but I know I’ve forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
More Iggy Pop Quotes
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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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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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Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.
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I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.
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The 2 things I like the most are girls and loud noises.
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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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Onstage I’ve been hit by a grapefruit, beercans, eggs, spit, money, cigarette butts, Mandies, Quaaludes, joints, bras, panties, and a fist.
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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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Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
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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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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 kinda feel like everything comes full circle in life, even though that’s a cliche.
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If I don’t terrorize, I’m not Pop.
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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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