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I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, ‘Wow, I’m really great-looking.’… I think I’m the greatest, anyway.

Iggy Pop

Music is life, and life is not a business.
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Business Life Music
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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Dark Tunes Two
Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.
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Culture Skins
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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Hot Memories Survival
Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.
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Curious Pay Unexpected
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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Beautiful Diamond Nuts
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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People Sex Trying
Onstage I’ve been hit by a grapefruit, beercans, eggs, spit, money, cigarette butts, Mandies, Quaaludes, joints, bras, panties, and a fist.
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Eggs Fists Joints
I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, ‘Wow, I’m really great-looking.’… I think I’m the greatest, anyway.
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Mirrors Thinking Wow
Bowie’s a real man, and I’m a real woman – just like Catherine Deneuve.
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Bowie Men Real
I’m bored, I’m the chairman of the board.
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Boards Bored Work
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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Come Produce Sound
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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Feelings Giving People
It is very important what not to do.
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Feel Important People Very
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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Ideas Rocks Thinking
Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
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Country Easy Easy Going People

I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, ‘Wow, I’m really great-looking.’… I think I’m the greatest, anyway.

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