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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.

Iggy Pop

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.
IGGY POP

Feelings Giving People
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
If I started thinking too much about how influential I’ve been, then I’d be more of a turd than I already am.
IGGY POP

Influential Much Thinking Too
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.
IGGY POP

Records Singers Style
Music is life, and life is not a business.
IGGY POP

Business Life Music
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.
IGGY POP

Blow Day Good Past
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.
IGGY POP

Palaces People Uptight
I have a hot memory, but I know I’ve forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
IGGY POP

Hot Memories Survival
I kinda feel like everything comes full circle in life, even though that’s a cliche.
IGGY POP

Circle Cliche Full Life
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.
IGGY POP

Believe Boys Whales
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
IGGY POP

Car Illegal Riding Things
Pussy power’s pulling me down, down, down, down. When it’s there and I can’t have it, I get real real rabid.
IGGY POP

Pulling Pussy Real
Onstage I’ve been hit by a grapefruit, beercans, eggs, spit, money, cigarette butts, Mandies, Quaaludes, joints, bras, panties, and a fist.
IGGY POP

Eggs Fists Joints
I’m bored, I’m the chairman of the board.
IGGY POP

Boards Bored Work
It is very important what not to do.
IGGY POP

Feel Important People Very
Really good music isn’t just to be heard, you know? It’s almost like a hallucination
IGGY POP

Hallucinations Heard Music

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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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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