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.
IGGY POPPussy power’s pulling me down, down, down, down. When it’s there and I can’t have it, I get real real rabid.
More Iggy Pop Quotes
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What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.
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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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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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Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.
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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 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’m glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they’re lying.
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I never say never about anything.
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Bowie’s a real man, and I’m a real woman – just like Catherine Deneuve.
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If I started thinking too much about how influential I’ve been, then I’d be more of a turd than I already am.
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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 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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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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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.
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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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