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 POPI’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.
More Iggy Pop Quotes
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Music is life, and life is not a business.
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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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And it’s a – it’s a term that’s based on contempt; it’s a term that’s based on fashion, style, elitism, satanism, and, everything that’s rotten about rock ‘n’ roll.
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I kinda feel like everything comes full circle in life, even though that’s a cliche.
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What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.
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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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There are no pimps, no whores, no transvestites – gone. Now that’s more the culture I’m comfortable in … I don’t like it in the house, you know what I mean, but I like it somewhere around.
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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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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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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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The Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame was a great idea when it started, but I think they ought to close it, I think it’s full.
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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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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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