I have a hot memory, but I know I’ve forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
IGGY POPI 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.
More Iggy Pop Quotes
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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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What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.
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Bowie’s a real man, and I’m a real woman – just like Catherine Deneuve.
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Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.
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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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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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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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I never say never about anything.
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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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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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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.
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The 2 things I like the most are girls and loud noises.
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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 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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