I’ll love you when my eyes are open, I’ll love you when my eyes are gone.
IGGY POPMy 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.
More Iggy Pop Quotes
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If I don’t terrorize, I’m not Pop.
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What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.
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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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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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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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Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.
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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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Music is life, and life is not a business.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The 2 things I like the most are girls and loud noises.
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