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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.

Iggy Pop

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.
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Records Singers Style
I never say never about anything.
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never Say
Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.
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Culture Skins
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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Basketball Football Play Scuba
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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Hot Memories Survival
Really good music isn’t just to be heard, you know? It’s almost like a hallucination
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Hallucinations Heard Music
Music is life, and life is not a business.
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Business Life Music
You know, I’m fifty-two now and I call myself a singer. Before I kick it I want to be able to carry a tune in a living room if called upon. Of course, mine come out all dark and twisted and weird.
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Dark Tunes Two
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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Cities Cousins Towns
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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Palaces People Uptight
What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.
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Antics People Shows
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.
IGGY POP

Fashion Rocks Style
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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Beautiful Diamond Nuts
Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
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Country Easy Easy Going People
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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Legs Suave Successful Terrible
I’m glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they’re lying.
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Art Crazy Lying

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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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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