Iggy Pop Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.”
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“I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.”
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“I think that prosecuting some college kid because she shared a file is a lot like sending somebody to Australia 200 years ago for poaching his lordship's rabbit. That's how it must seem to poor people who just want to watch a crappy movie for free after they’ve been working themselves to death all day at Tesco or whatever, you know.”
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“I'm not ashamed to dress "like a woman" because I don't think it's shameful to be a woman.”
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“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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“They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.”
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“I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.”
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“The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.”
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“When it comes to art, money is an unimportant detail. It just happens to be a huge unimportant detail.”
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“I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.”
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“Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.”
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“What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.”
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“When I get up in the morning, I stay nude for three or four hours. If I really feel like getting formal, I'll put on board shorts.”
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“Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.”
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“Miami is nothing like me, and thats why I need to be here - its the opposite. Im practical, where this place is moody, Im stolid in my interior, where this place has a certain flair, and Im materialistic in a sense that this place is fundamentally spiritual - theres a quicksilver quality about this place.”
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“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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“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.”
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“I'll love you when my eyes are open, I'll love you when my eyes are gone.”
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“I'd come home from school alone with those teenage blues and I'd put on Frank Sinatra's It was a very good year. Here was this mature man singing about the cycle of his life, and as a kid I felt the emotions of it already. It has since been a touchstone for me whenever I want to experiment musically.”
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“I'm a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm.”
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“And it's a... it's a term 'Punk Rock' 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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“I'm glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they're lying.”
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“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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“Really good music isn't just to be heard, you know? It's almost like a hallucination”
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“The key to The Doors is the culture behind the myth.”
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