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 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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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’ll love you when my eyes are open, I’ll love you when my eyes are gone.
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Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.
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Bowie’s a real man, and I’m a real woman – just like Catherine Deneuve.
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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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I kinda feel like everything comes full circle in life, even though that’s a cliche.
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I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.
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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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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 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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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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Music is life, and life is not a business.
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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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If I don’t terrorize, I’m not Pop.
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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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