I have a hot memory, but I know I’ve forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
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 kinda feel like everything comes full circle in life, even though that’s a cliche.
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Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
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Bowie’s a real man, and I’m a real woman – just like Catherine Deneuve.
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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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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I’m getting older and older.
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It is very important what not to do.
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I never say never about anything.
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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 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 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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I’m bored, I’m the chairman of the board.
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If I don’t terrorize, I’m not Pop.
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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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I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.
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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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