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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

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.
IGGY POP

House Mean Pimp
I kinda feel like everything comes full circle in life, even though that’s a cliche.
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Circle Cliche Full Life
I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.
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Bother Done Torn
It is very important what not to do.
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Feel Important People Very
The 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.
IGGY POP

Ideas Rocks Thinking
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
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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Influential Much Thinking Too
Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
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Country Easy Easy Going People
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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Coke Heroin Ounce Running
I’m bored, I’m the chairman of the board.
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Boards Bored Work
Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.
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Curious Pay Unexpected
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 POP

Blow Day Good Past
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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Eggs Fists Joints
Really good music isn’t just to be heard, you know? It’s almost like a hallucination
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Hallucinations Heard Music
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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Car Illegal Riding Things
The 2 things I like the most are girls and loud noises.
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Age Girl Loud Noise

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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