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.
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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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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Music is life, and life is not a business.
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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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Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.
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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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Bowie’s a real man, and I’m a real woman – just like Catherine Deneuve.
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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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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 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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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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I’m glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they’re lying.
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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, 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’ll love you when my eyes are open, I’ll love you when my eyes are gone.
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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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