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Iggy Pop Quotes
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.'... I think I'm the greatest, anyway.
- Nov 07, 2020
If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop.
- Money
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Look, you're here to see me, and I can't go on until my dealer is here, and he's waiting to be paid, so give me some money so I can fix up, and then you'll get your show.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop.
- Mom
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My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a travel enthusiast.
- Healthy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a little bit damaged in about 15 different ways, and it's been nice that no particular damaged area has become a major issue. I'm a more than moderately healthy 65-year-old male who has gotten away with a lot of stuff.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don't feel great about, and it'll make you feel so bad it'll destroy you and kill you.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Burden
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- Nov 07, 2020
Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people who were learning from me tended to be more commercial performers who were gonna rip off the salient idea to do it in a way that will sell, but they weren't going for the music.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's more fun to look at an old picture of me than it is to look at a new one sometimes. Although, I still wear a dress pretty well.
- Plumbing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
- Coffee
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became Iggy because I had a sadistic boss at a record store. I'd been in a band called the Iguanas. And when this boss wanted to embarrass and demean me, he'd say, 'Iggy, get me a coffee, light.'
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Miami is nothing like me, and that's why I need to be here - it's the opposite. I'm practical, where this place is moody, I'm stolid in my interior, where this place has a certain flair, and I'm materialistic in a sense that this place is fundamentally spiritual - there's a quicksilver quality about this place.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the 'godfather of punk' thing started floatin' around, it was, I was really, really embarrassed. I thought I should have a great, big rig and a cape and everything, and it was very embarrassing. And then after a while, you learn that if people call you anything, this is a great gift.
- Fire
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