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Iggy Pop
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: April 21
Actor
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Songwriter
Muskegon
Michigan
James Newell Osterberg
James Newell Osterberg Jr.
James Osterberg
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Studios are like hospitals. A lot of people check in, and they don't check out.
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How am I going to listen to that horrible noise I make without a gram of coke and a couple of double Jack Daniels?
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I'm not ashamed to dress like a woman because I don't think it's shameful to be a woman.
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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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If I had to depend on what I actually get from sales, I'd be tending bar between sets.
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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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Miami's never been more than a spit from New York.
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The key to The Doors is the culture behind the myth.
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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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I'm bored, I'm the chairman of the board.
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The 2 things I like the most are girls and loud noises.
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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.
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My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.
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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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I thought that if I practiced doing melodies for a year or so at home, I would learn to think melodically, and when I went to work it would come out, and it did, on this album. What else was important to me...? I spend a lot of time in the grocery store, shopping.
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I thought, Wow, it sounds really stoned anyway. It sounded good to me. I found out that there was a lot in there. What all this comes down to is I was just trying to get in touch with myself. And I met some interesting people in New York who weren't in show business. I even got to know my dentist.
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The future of rock n roll is Justin Bieber.
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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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Bowie's a real man, and I'm a real woman - just like Catherine Deneuve.
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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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