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.
IGGY POPThe 2 things I like the most are girls and loud noises.
More Iggy Pop Quotes
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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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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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I’m bored, I’m the chairman of the board.
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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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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I’m getting older and older.
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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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Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
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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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Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.
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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 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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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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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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I’m glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they’re lying.
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I kinda feel like everything comes full circle in life, even though that’s a cliche.
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