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’m bored, I’m the chairman of the board.
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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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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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Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there’s a current and just stare into the water. I don’t fish, I don’t hunt, I don’t scuba, I don’t spear, don’t boat, don’t play basketball or football – I excel at staring into space. I’m really good at that.
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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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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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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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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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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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Music is life, and life is not a business.
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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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Bowie’s a real man, and I’m a real woman – just like Catherine Deneuve.
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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 kinda feel like everything comes full circle in life, even though that’s a cliche.
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