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Iggy Pop
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: April 21
Actor
Guitarist
Musician
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Songwriter
Muskegon
Michigan
James Newell Osterberg
James Newell Osterberg Jr.
James Osterberg
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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.
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My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.
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I'm a travel enthusiast.
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And it's a - it's a term that's based on contempt it's a term that's based on fashion, style, elitism, satanism, and, everything that's rotten about rock 'n' roll.
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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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Bowie's a real man, and I'm a real woman - just like Catherine Deneuve.
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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.
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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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I'm not the kind of person that likes to be dependent.
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The future of rock n roll is Justin Bieber.
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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.
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Miami's never been more than a spit from New York.
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Life is just a bag of pot.
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I think that all the years of exposure to amps and electricity has altered my body chemistry.
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The most successful stuff is sold to you as indispensable social information. The message in the music is, 'We are terribly, terribly slick and suave, and if you listen to us, you can probably get a leg up in society, too.'
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I'm bored, I'm the chairman of the board.
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Second only to the sea, the Miami sky has been the greatest comfort in my life past 50. On a good day, when the wind blows from the south, the light here is diffuse and forgiving.
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The 2 things I like the most are girls and loud noises.
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I think that prosecuting some college kid because she shared a file is a lot like sending somebody to Australia 200 years ago for poaching his lordship's rabbit. That's how it must seem to poor people who just want to watch a crappy movie for free after they’ve been working themselves to death all day at Tesco or whatever, you know.
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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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