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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.

Iggy Pop

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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People Sex Trying
Music is life, and life is not a business.
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Business Life Music
I kinda feel like everything comes full circle in life, even though that’s a cliche.
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Circle Cliche Full Life
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.
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Beautiful Diamond Nuts
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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Pulling Pussy Real
Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.
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Curious Pay Unexpected
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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Come Produce Sound
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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Cities Cousins Towns
It is very important what not to do.
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Feel Important People Very
Bowie’s a real man, and I’m a real woman – just like Catherine Deneuve.
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Bowie Men Real
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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Blow Day Good Past
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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Hot Memories Survival
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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Influential Much Thinking Too
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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Palaces People Uptight
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.
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Ideas Rocks Thinking
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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Records Singers Style

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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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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