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
IGGY POPThe 2 things I like the most are girls and loud noises.
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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’ll love you when my eyes are open, I’ll love you when my eyes are gone.
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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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The 2 things I like the most are girls and loud noises.
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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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Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.
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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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