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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

Really good music isn’t just to be heard, you know? It’s almost like a hallucination
IGGY POP

Hallucinations Heard Music
Well, I don’t use the toilet much to pee in. I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee on my estate.
IGGY POP

Garden Use Yards
Stages are getting higher and higher, and I’m getting older and older.
IGGY POP

Getting Getting Older High Stage
If I don’t terrorize, I’m not Pop.
IGGY POP

Country People Pops Terrorize
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.
IGGY POP

Believe Boys Whales
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.’
IGGY POP

Legs Suave Successful Terrible
I’ll love you when my eyes are open, I’ll love you when my eyes are gone.
IGGY POP

Eye Gone Love You
Bowie’s a real man, and I’m a real woman – just like Catherine Deneuve.
IGGY POP

Bowie Men Real
I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.
IGGY POP

Bother Done Torn
It is very important what not to do.
IGGY POP

Feel Important People Very
If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that’s such a rare gift. It’s underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.
IGGY POP

Feelings Giving People
The 2 things I like the most are girls and loud noises.
IGGY POP

Age Girl Loud Noise
I have a hot memory, but I know I’ve forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
IGGY POP

Hot Memories Survival
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
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
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

People Sex Trying
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.
IGGY POP

Palaces People Uptight
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.
IGGY POP

Cities Cousins Towns
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
Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.
IGGY POP

Curious Pay Unexpected
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.
IGGY POP

Beautiful Diamond Nuts
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.
IGGY POP

Anything Creative Fire Kids Nice
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.
IGGY POP

Coke Heroin Ounce Running
Pussy power’s pulling me down, down, down, down. When it’s there and I can’t have it, I get real real rabid.
IGGY POP

Pulling Pussy Real
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.
IGGY POP

Dark Tunes Two
Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
IGGY POP

Country Easy Easy Going People
What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.
IGGY POP

Antics People Shows

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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