My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience,… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
Really good music isn't just to be heard, you know? It's almost like a hallucination — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
Basically, I’m a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something. — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
And if somebody's going to produce me, they should be producing my sound for me. And that's something I have to come… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts,… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
The most successful stuff is sold to you as indispensable social information. The message in the music is, 'We are terribly, terribly… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that’s such a rare gift. It’s underestimated at… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don’t feel great about,… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
You know, I'm fifty-two now and I call myself a singer. Before I kick it I want to be able to carry… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
And for so long, I had thought if I was going to write a song, or get "into" something, I had to… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
Well, after Zombie Birdhouse came out, I toured behind it in the fall of 1982, into the spring, and in the summer… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
In the morning I'd write these essays, anything that I'd feel like writing, and in the afternoon, I'd spend time with my… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
I think that prosecuting some college kid because she shared a file is a lot like sending somebody to Australia 200 years ago for… — Iggy Pop Copy Share
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… — Iggy Pop Copy Share
I stayed in L.A. long enough to get on my feet, and then I moved back to New York. The reason I moved here… — Iggy Pop Copy Share
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… — Iggy Pop Copy Share
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… — Iggy Pop Copy Share
There was a time when I wanted to get out of the Western world. I went down to Grenada and looked at a place,… — Iggy Pop Copy Share
'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls,… — Iggy Pop Copy Share
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… — Iggy Pop Copy Share
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… — Iggy Pop Copy Share
I smoked this joint and then it hit me. I thought, what you gotta do is play your own simply blues. — Iggy Pop Copy Share
Well, after Zombie Birdhouse came out, I toured behind it in the fall of 1982, into the spring, and in the summer in the… — Iggy Pop Copy Share
I wasn't so stupid that I didn't realize the implications of what they were saying. In my live work I was going for the… — Iggy Pop Copy Share
