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Iggy Pop

My general take on American music since 1969 is that it’s just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight – audience, performance, and palace guard.
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Palaces People Uptight
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.
IGGY POP

Dark Tunes Two
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 POP

People Sex Trying
Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.
IGGY POP

Curious Pay Unexpected
Well, I don’t use the toilet much to pee in. I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee on my estate.
IGGY POP

Garden Use Yards
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.
IGGY POP

Ideas Rocks Thinking
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.
IGGY POP

House Mean Pimp
Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
IGGY POP

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.
IGGY POP

Mirrors Thinking Wow
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.’
IGGY POP

Legs Suave Successful Terrible
Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.
IGGY POP

Culture Skins
I’m bored, I’m the chairman of the board.
IGGY POP

Boards Bored Work
I kinda feel like everything comes full circle in life, even though that’s a cliche.
IGGY POP

Circle Cliche Full Life
Music is life, and life is not a business.
IGGY POP

Business Life Music
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.
IGGY POP

Cities Cousins Towns
Stages are getting higher and higher, and I’m getting older and older.
IGGY POP

Getting Getting Older High Stage

If I don’t terrorize, I’m not Pop.

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