I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.
IGGY POPReally good music isn’t just to be heard, you know? It’s almost like a hallucination
More Iggy Pop Quotes
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I kinda feel like everything comes full circle in life, even though that’s a cliche.
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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 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.
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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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Bowie’s a real man, and I’m a real woman – just like Catherine Deneuve.
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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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Second 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.
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If I don’t terrorize, I’m not Pop.
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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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I never say never about anything.
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Pussy power’s pulling me down, down, down, down. When it’s there and I can’t have it, I get real real rabid.
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Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there’s a current and just stare into the water. I don’t fish, I don’t hunt, I don’t scuba, I don’t spear, don’t boat, don’t play basketball or football – I excel at staring into space. I’m really good at that.
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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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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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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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