Iggy Pop

Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.

— Iggy Pop

The 2 things I like the most are girls and loud noises.

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Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.

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I'll love you when my eyes are open, I'll love you when my eyes are gone.

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

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Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.

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What the world needs right now... a good, artistic, gothic, terrifying scare

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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.

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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."…

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If I started thinking too much about how influential I've been, then I'd be more of a turd than I already am.

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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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When I get up in the morning, I stay nude for three or four hours. If I really feel like getting formal,…

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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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Second only to the sea, the Miami sky has been the greatest comfort in my life past 50. On a good day,…

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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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Look, you're here to see me, and I can't go on until my dealer is here, and he's waiting to be paid,…

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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…

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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…

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I thought, "Wow, it sounds really stoned anyway." It sounded good to me. I found out that there was a lot in…

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I am the passenger, I stay under glass. I look through my window so bright, I see the stars come out tonight.…

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I thought that if I practiced doing melodies for a year or so at home, I would learn to think melodically, and…

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The problem being: for years I was struggling - first to prove that I had any talent, then to create some skills…

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It's the same thing: I would think, "If I can't go out and pull some teenager tonight, maybe I'm no good on…

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I don't think I'm lucky; I think I have a tough constitution. That's a lot of it. And I've been wise enough…

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Studios are like hospitals. A lot of people check in, and they don't check out.

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I'm a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm.

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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.

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They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.

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Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.

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

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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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I'm not ashamed to dress "like a woman" because I don't think it's shameful to be a woman.

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As society has changed, what had formerly been unacceptable has become colourful.

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I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.

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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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Well, the stuff that has become more commercial doesn't have any edge.

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I think that all the years of exposure to amps and electricity has altered my body chemistry.

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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.

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What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.

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It's fair to say that I have a side that is prudent and a side that is not.

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