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I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.

Iggy Pop

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.
IGGY POP

Palaces People Uptight
The 2 things I like the most are girls and loud noises.
IGGY POP

Age Girl Loud Noise
Miami’s not anybody’s poor cousin. It’s an aspiration to live in this town, not something you have to do to promote yourself like some of the larger cities.
IGGY POP

Cities Cousins Towns
Music is life, and life is not a business.
IGGY POP

Business Life Music
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 POP

Car Illegal Riding Things
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.
IGGY POP

Feelings Giving People
If I don’t terrorize, I’m not Pop.
IGGY POP

Country People Pops Terrorize
I never say never about anything.
IGGY POP

never Say
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.
IGGY POP

Records Singers Style
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.
IGGY POP

Fashion Rocks Style
Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
IGGY POP

Country Easy Easy Going People
Pussy power’s pulling me down, down, down, down. When it’s there and I can’t have it, I get real real rabid.
IGGY POP

Pulling Pussy Real
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.
IGGY POP

House Mean Pimp
If I started thinking too much about how influential I’ve been, then I’d be more of a turd than I already am.
IGGY POP

Influential Much Thinking Too
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.
IGGY POP

People Sex Trying
I’m glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they’re lying.
IGGY POP

Art Crazy Lying

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