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 POPI never say never about anything.
More Iggy Pop Quotes
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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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What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.
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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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I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, ‘Wow, I’m really great-looking.’… I think I’m the greatest, anyway.
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I’ll love you when my eyes are open, I’ll love you when my eyes are gone.
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Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.
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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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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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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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I’m glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they’re lying.
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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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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I’m getting older and older.
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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.
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