Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.
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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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’ll love you when my eyes are open, I’ll love you when my eyes are gone.
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It is very important what not to do.
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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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The most successful stuff is sold to you as indispensable social information. The message in the music is, ‘We are terribly, terribly slick and suave, and if you listen to us, you can probably get a leg up in society, too.’
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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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Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.
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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 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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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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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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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’m glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they’re lying.
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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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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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