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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
Iggy Pop
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Iggy Pop
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: April 21
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Muskegon
Michigan
James Newell Osterberg
James Newell Osterberg Jr.
James Osterberg
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I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.
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What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.
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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, so give me some money so I can fix up, and then you'll get your show.
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When it comes to art, money is an unimportant detail. It just happens to be a huge unimportant detail.
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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.
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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 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.
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It's more fun to look at an old picture of me than it is to look at a new one sometimes. Although, I still wear a dress pretty well.
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I feel a great comfort and relief knowing that there are others who lived and died and thought and fought so long ago I feel less tyrannized by the present day.
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Miami's not anybody's poor cousin. It's an aspiration to live in this town, not something you have to do to promote yourself like some of the larger cities.
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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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Cigarettes and coffee, man, that's a combination.
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Well, it wasn't like I was going to run out and score heroin and score an ounce of coke - but incidentally, on the road, I would usually get tanked up and as stoned as I possibly could to go on stage. And offstage, it would be a demon that would come up about twice a week.
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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.
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Miami is nothing like me, and thats why I need to be here - its the opposite. Im practical, where this place is moody, Im stolid in my interior, where this place has a certain flair, and Im materialistic in a sense that this place is fundamentally spiritual - theres a quicksilver quality about this place.
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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 stage anymore. And you start to think that you even need it as a motivation. I did, anyway.
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I'm a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm.
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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 to listen to other people. I was unconsciously cultivating as many straight friends as I could.
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What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.
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What do you do with a lifetime of work? Face it in the morning.
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