Iggy Pop Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.”

“I'm a travel enthusiast.”

“She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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