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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.

Iggy Pop

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
I kinda feel like everything comes full circle in life, even though that’s a cliche.
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Circle Cliche Full Life
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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Legs Suave Successful Terrible
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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House Mean Pimp
Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
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Country Easy Easy Going People
I never say never about anything.
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never Say
It is very important what not to do.
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Feel Important People Very
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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Eggs Fists Joints
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.
IGGY POP

Come Produce Sound
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.
IGGY POP

Beautiful Diamond Nuts
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

Anything Creative Fire Kids Nice
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
What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.
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Antics People Shows
I’ll love you when my eyes are open, I’ll love you when my eyes are gone.
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Eye Gone Love You
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.
IGGY POP

Fashion Rocks Style
Really good music isn’t just to be heard, you know? It’s almost like a hallucination
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Hallucinations Heard Music

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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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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