Iggy Pop Quotes

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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Coke Heroin Ounce Running
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
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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Believe Boys Whales
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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Anything Creative Fire Kids Nice
If I don’t terrorize, I’m not Pop.
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Country People Pops Terrorize
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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Garden Use Yards
Really good music isn’t just to be heard, you know? It’s almost like a hallucination
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Hallucinations Heard Music
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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Mirrors Thinking Wow
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.
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Blow Day Good Past
Pussy power’s pulling me down, down, down, down. When it’s there and I can’t have it, I get real real rabid.
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Pulling Pussy Real
Stages are getting higher and higher, and I’m getting older and older.
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Getting Getting Older High Stage
I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.
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Bother Done Torn
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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Cities Cousins Towns
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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Records Singers Style
I’m glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they’re lying.
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Art Crazy Lying
The 2 things I like the most are girls and loud noises.
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Age Girl Loud Noise
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.
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Feelings Giving People
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
I never say never about anything.
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never Say
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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People Sex Trying
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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Come Produce Sound
I have a hot memory, but I know I’ve forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
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Hot Memories Survival
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.
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Ideas Rocks Thinking
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
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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Basketball Football Play Scuba
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.
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Fashion Rocks Style
Bowie’s a real man, and I’m a real woman – just like Catherine Deneuve.
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Bowie Men Real

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