Iggy Pop Quotes

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• I smoked this joint and then it hit me. I thought, what you gotta do is play your own simply blues.
• I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.
• It is very important what not to do.
• 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.
• Bowie's a real man, and I'm a real woman - just like Catherine Deneuve.
• You know, I'm fifty-two now and I call myself a singer. Before I kick it I want to be able to carry a tune in…
• How am I going to listen to that horrible noise I make without a gram of coke and a couple of double Jack Daniels?
• Basically, I’m a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
• Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.
• The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
• A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don’t feel great about, and it’ll make…
• 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…
• 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 fish,…
• The future of rock n roll is Justin Bieber.
• The key to The Doors is the culture behind the myth.
• 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…
• When it comes to art, money is an unimportant detail. It just happens to be a huge unimportant detail.
• Music is life, and life is not a business.
• Cigarettes and coffee, man, that's a combination.
• If I had to depend on what I actually get from sales, I'd be tending bar between sets,

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