Iggy Pop Quotes

Iggy Pop
American Musician
Born: Apr 21, 1947
Like Me Money Music People You
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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. Iggy Pop
Good Water Space Sit Hunt Something Excel Football Like Fish Lot Current Just Boat Scuba Really Spear Stare Play Staring Play Basketball Basketball
What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen. Iggy Pop
Christ Fishermen Hung Out He Did Really
I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward. Iggy Pop
Focus Looking Backward Find Look Looking Forward Hard Forward
Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older. Iggy Pop
Getting Older Older Higher Getting Stages
It's fair to say that I have a side that is prudent and a side that is not. Iggy Pop
Side Say Fair Prudent
I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild. Iggy Pop
Music Me Wild More Nails Like Sound Offensive Get
'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. Iggy Pop
Music Time Word Punk Men Young Everything Minds Punk Rock About Give Takes Rock Souls Up Heartless Hearts Energies Young Men Bodies Used Who
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. Iggy Pop
Garden Almost Like Well Because Yard Always Estate Much Use Toilet
Well, the stuff that has become more commercial doesn't have any edge. Iggy Pop
Edge Become More Stuff Well Commercial Any
I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me. Iggy Pop
Me Something Could Bothering Like Without Get Done Where Anyone Places
Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor. Iggy Pop
Burden Types Musical Tend Combine Author Actor
My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard. Iggy Pop
Music People Guard General More Take Performance Since Audience American Getting Just Uptight American Music Palace
What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show. Iggy Pop
Good People Some People Would Some Call Just Show
If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop. Iggy Pop
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. Iggy Pop
Me You Waiting Money See Some Give Give Me He Look Until Dealer Go Up Fix Get Then Paid Your Show Here
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. Iggy Pop
God Time Light Parents Older Definition Over Got Began Artistic Candle Oh Oh My God Arts Wanted Realized Pop Iggy Suddenly Stretch
My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice. Iggy Pop
Mom Me Nice She Saint Taught
I'm a travel enthusiast. Iggy Pop
Travel Enthusiast
I'm a little bit damaged in about 15 different ways, and it's been nice that no particular damaged area has become a major issue. I'm a more than moderately healthy 65-year-old male who has gotten away with a lot of stuff. Iggy Pop
Become Healthy Nice Bit Ways About More Area Stuff Major Particular Gotten Issue Been Male Lot Than Moderately Different Little Little Bit Who Different Ways Away Damaged
I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free. Iggy Pop
Mom Better School Free Rules Out High Running Obeying High School Term Like House Got Normal Accordance Normal Person Conduct Person Lack Just Moved Then Your Mom And Dad Who Dad Started
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. Iggy Pop
Politics Music Good History You People Gift Rare Feeling Kind Some Give Something Point Performance Underestimated Inevitably Gets Turning Across
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 Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke. Iggy Pop
Music Great You World Money Black First Hillbilly Young White Broke Black Music Ray Know Were Get Any Artists Dylan Bob Bob Dylan Richards Successfully English-Speaking Keith Richards
At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism. Iggy Pop
Crazy Reading About Poets Through Had Obsessed Prism Came Been Subjects View Lives Early University
Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going. Iggy Pop
Living Easy-Going Civil Wonderfully England
Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something. Iggy Pop
Sideline Musical Plumbing Vocalist Something Voiceover Stuff Like Basically
I try to beat back the producers and engineers so they - there's not an excess of stuff used to squeeze my voice to make it artificial. There's a person in there, and people will listen; if they hear another person speak to them, they'll listen because it's lonely out here. Iggy Pop
People Speak Try Will Lonely Back Out Out Here Voice Beat Excess Stuff Make Another Because Hear Person Squeeze Artificial Listen Them Producers Used Engineers Here

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