- Burden
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- 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