Iggy Pop Quotes Page 2

“Onstage I've been hit by a grapefruit, beercans, eggs, spit, money, cigarette butts, Mandies, Quaaludes, joints, bras, panties, and a fist.”

“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.”

“Really good music isn't just to be heard, you know? It's almost like a hallucination.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“The future of rock n roll is Justin Bieber.”

“The nut of the thing is that if what you make is hard like a diamond, you can put it anywhere. You can put it up your and it will still be beautiful.”

“The problem being: for years I was struggling – first to prove that I had any talent, then to create some skills and finally to fulfil it reasonably.

But then once I got there it was, "OK. I did that, but I want to be happy." And that's a whole different deal.

It's kind of like a dance. Being active seems to help. I'm 70, so sometimes a little voice is going: Just take it easy.”

“The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame was a great idea when it started, but I think they ought to close it, I think it's full.”

“The two things I like the most are girls and loud noises.”

“There are no pimps, no wh*res, no transvestites – gone. Now that's more the culture I'm comfortable in. I don't like it in the house, you know what I mean, but I like it somewhere around.”

“They say that death kills you, but death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.”

“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.”

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

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

“When I get up in the morning, I stay nude for three or four hours. If I really feel like getting formal, I'll put on board shorts.”

“When it comes to art, money is an unimportant detail. It just happens to be a huge unimportant detail.”

“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 Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.”

“When the 'Godfather of Punk' thing started floatin' around, it was, I was really, really embarrassed. I thought I should have a great, big rig and a cape and everything, and it was very embarrassing.

And then after a while, you learn that if people call you anything, this is a great gift.”

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

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

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

“I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.”

“I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.' I think I'm the greatest, anyway.”

“If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop.”

“Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive.”

“I always went in with a very specific idea of the sound I wanted, and once I'd recorded I'd try and make it sell as much as I could, but I only went in thinking of a sound I wanted.

So, it's no surprise to me that he got the hit and I didn't. But what I realized was that he did dress it up nicely, and my god, he does sing on key well.”

“I was feeling that I was the in the dead-end circuit from 1980 to 1983, and I didn't know what else to do. I remember doing a show in some college town, in a tiny club, and afterward some fans came back. I thought I had done good gig and they were going to tell me that.”