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
I'm not a singer, a walking instrument like Aretha Franklin. When you get an Iggy Pop record, you don't get "Iggy Sings."… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor. — 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
I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild. — 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
In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob… — 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
I thought that if I practiced doing melodies for a year or so at home, I would learn to think melodically, and… — 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 what I think you get scared of more - especially me, after touring for so long and being in bands… — 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
Basically, I’m a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something. — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
The people who were learning from me tended to be more commercial performers who were gonna rip off the salient idea to… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
'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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
