Music is life, and life is not a business.
IGGY POPI never say never about anything.
More Iggy Pop Quotes
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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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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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Really good music isn’t just to be heard, you know? It’s almost like a hallucination
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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 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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If I don’t terrorize, I’m not Pop.
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Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.
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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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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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I kinda feel like everything comes full circle in life, even though that’s a cliche.
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I’m bored, I’m the chairman of the board.
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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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I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.
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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.
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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.
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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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I’ll love you when my eyes are open, I’ll love you when my eyes are gone.
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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 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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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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What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.
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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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Bowie’s a real man, and I’m a real woman – just like Catherine Deneuve.
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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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Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
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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.
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