Iggy Pop quotes

They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you. (Iggy Pop)
I wore that because it makes me look beautiful. I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, "Wow, I'm really great-looking." ... I think I'm the greatest, anyway.
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If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop.
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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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My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.
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Bowie's a real man, and I'm a real woman - just like Catherine Deneuve.
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Sex may be a little more factual than love. You know whether it's good or bad. You know whether you liked it or not. You're not going to change your mind about it ten years later.
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I'm really not good with the pickups. I'm a klutz and don't have a line of gab. I'm only good if they know who I am. So I'll just sit and wait for somebody to say, "Aren't you ... ?" and then go from there.
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You say I look goofy? OK, great. You say it's comedy? Great. Whatever anyone thought, I didn't care. Could be goony, could be sexy, could be stupid, could be cool. I didn't know, but as long as it was something, you know?
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Yeah, she's heard the war stories ... I tell it all to her. I think one has to, because one wants to know somebody, and one wants to feel that somebody knows one. I mean, the embarrassment quotient has been going down for a long time, and the fond amusement has been rising.
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Really good music isn't just to be heard, you know? It's almost like a hallucination. (Iggy Pop)
What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.
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Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive.
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My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop.
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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 this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.
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What I do on stage has utterly no purpose.
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As society has changed, what had formerly been unacceptable has become colorful, even the broken-glass thing.
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I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee on my estate.
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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, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.
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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, I don't hunt, I don't scuba, I don't spear, don't boat, don't play basketball or football - I excel at staring into space. I'm really good at that.
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I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild. (Iggy Pop)
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, so give me some money so I can fix up, and then you'll get your show.
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Well, the stuff that has become more commercial doesn't have any edge.
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Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive. Everyone thinks I should be so happy, fucking all these chicks, and all the drugs and being a star. But I hurt. And I'm lonely.
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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 pee on my estate.
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