Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.
IGGY POPI’m glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they’re lying.
More Iggy Pop Quotes
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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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Music is life, and life is not a business.
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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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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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It is very important what not to do.
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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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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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I’m bored, I’m the chairman of the board.
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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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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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I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I’m getting older and older.
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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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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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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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