Iggy Pop Quotes - Page 3

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• 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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  Memories, Survival, Hot

  "Iggy's Trail of Destruction". Rolling Stone interview, November 19, 2003.

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• At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.

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  Crazy, Reading, Views

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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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  Alive, Prison, Spit

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• Sex may be a little more factual than love. You know whether it's good or bad. You know whether you liked it or not. You're not going to change your mind about it ten years later.

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  Sex, Love You, Years

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• If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop.

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  Pops, Ifs

  "Iggy's Trail of Destruction". Rolling Stone Interview, November 19, 2003.

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• 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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  Nice, Kids, Fire

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• 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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  Thinking, Ideas, Rocks

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• I have no idea why a guy would bring a jar of peanut butter to a concert.

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  Ideas, Guy, Peanut Butter

  "What I've Learned: Iggy Pop" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. February 20, 2007.

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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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  Sex, People, Trying

  Interview with Bret Gladstone, pitchfork.com. August 13, 2007.

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• I feel a great comfort and relief knowing that there are others who lived and died and thought and fought so long ago; I feel less tyrannized by the present day.

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  Long Ago, Knowing, Comfort

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• 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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  Thinking, Mirrors, Wow

  "Iggy's Trail of Destruction". Rolling Stone interview, November 19, 2003.

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• The key to The Doors is the culture behind the myth.

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  Keys, Doors, Culture

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• I always went in with a very specific idea of the sound I wanted, and once I'd recorded I'd try and make it sell as much as I could, but I only went in thinking of a sound I wanted. So, it's no surprise to me that he got the hit and I didn't. But what I realized was that he did dress it up nicely, and my god, he does sing on key well.

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  Thinking, Ideas, Keys

  "New Again: Iggy Pop". Interview With Lisa Robinson, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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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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  Morning, Boards, Three

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• 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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  Style, Singers, Records

  "New Again: Iggy Pop". Interview With Lisa Robinson, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• 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.

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  Artist, White, Black

  Interview with Bret Gladstone, pitchfork.com. August 13, 2007.

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• 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

  "When you hear what Iggy Pop told CBC in 1977, it's no wonder he's still rocking today" by Leah Collins, www.cbc.ca. March 11, 2016.

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• 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

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• If I had to depend on what I actually get from sales, I'd be tending bar between sets.

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  Bars, Depends, Ifs

  "Iggy Pop gives first lecture on punk, profits and principles". "PM" with Brendan Trembath, www.abc.net.au. October 14, 2014.

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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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  Running, Coke, Would Be

  "New Again: Iggy Pop". Interview With Lisa Robinson, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• I don't get my bliss by listening over and over to people in the street thinking, "Boy, is it that good?" Even though every time I hear it that's what I think. But I get it in human situations. There is this little voice that is going, "The reason you're able to enjoy your life now is that you made it in rock'n'roll and people are giving you free visas all over the place. Dude, you are being spoiled".

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  Boys, Thinking, People

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• 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.

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  Fun, Dresses, Looks

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• 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.

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  Should Have, People, Capes

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• I was feeling that I was the in the dead-end circuit from 1980 to 1983, and I didn't know what else to do. I remember doing a show in some college town, in a tiny club, and afterward some fans came back. I thought I had done good gig and they were going to tell me that.

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  College, Feelings, Done

  "New Again: Iggy Pop". Interview With Lisa Robinson, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• 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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  People, Palaces, Uptight

  Interview with Bret Gladstone, pitchfork.com. August 13, 2007.

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