Song Quotes by Iggy Pop

14 Song quotes by Iggy Pop

Iggy Pop’s reflections on song crackle with the same restless energy that fuels his stage presence. In these 14 brief statements, he strips down music to its primal core, offering a no‑frills look at what drives his creative fire.

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Music is life, and life is not a business.

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And if somebody's going to produce me, they should be producing my sound for me. And that's something I have to come…

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Basically, I’m a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.

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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…

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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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My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience,…

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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…

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You know, I'm fifty-two now and I call myself a singer. Before I kick it I want to be able to carry…

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And for so long, I had thought if I was going to write a song, or get "into" something, I had to…

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A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don’t feel great about,…

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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,…

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The most successful stuff is sold to you as indispensable social information. The message in the music is, 'We are terribly, terribly…

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Well, after Zombie Birdhouse came out, I toured behind it in the fall of 1982, into the spring, and in the summer…

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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…

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What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.

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I'm not the kind of person that likes to be dependent.

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What do you do with a lifetime of work? Face it in the morning.

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