I’ll love you when my eyes are open, I’ll love you when my eyes are gone.
IGGY POPAnd 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.
More Iggy Pop Quotes
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Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.
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Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
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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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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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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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I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.
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Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.
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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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Music is life, and life is not a business.
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If I don’t terrorize, I’m not Pop.
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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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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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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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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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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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