Stages are getting higher and higher, and I’m getting older and older.
IGGY POPSecond 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.
More Iggy Pop Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Bowie’s a real man, and I’m a real woman – just like Catherine Deneuve.
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The 2 things I like the most are girls and loud noises.
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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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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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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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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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Really good music isn’t just to be heard, you know? It’s almost like a hallucination
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I never say never about anything.
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Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.
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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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