KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Iggy Pop Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Iggy Pop

Showing 31-40 of 45 Quotes by Iggy Pop

A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don't feel great about, and it'll make you feel so bad it'll destroy you and kill you.

~Iggy Pop

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Iggy Pop

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Iggy Pop

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.'

~Iggy Pop

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The people who were learning from me tended to be more commercial performers who were gonna rip off the salient idea to do it in a way that will sell, but they weren't going for the music.

~Iggy Pop

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Iggy Pop

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Iggy Pop

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.

~Iggy Pop

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Iggy Pop

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


It's fair to say that I have a side that is prudent and a side that is not.

~Iggy Pop

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: April 21st, 1947

Links

Find Iggy Pop on Amazon

Related Authors

Kurt Cobain
Bob Dylan
Eminem
Jimi Hendrix
Jim Morrison
Tupac Shakur
Frank Sinatra
Frank Zappa

Popular Authors

Bo Burnham Calvin Coolidge Bob Dylan T. S. Eliot Colin Powell Theodore Roosevelt Antoine De Saint-Exupery Mary Wollstonecraft

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1806 - Isambard K. Brunel

1821 - Charles Baudelaire

1865 - Adela Florence Nicolson

1872 - Leon Blum

1888 - Sol Hurok

1893 - Charles Simmons

1898 - Paul Robeson

1905 - J. William Fulbright

1906 - Victor Vasarely

1910 - Abraham A. Ribicoff

Birthdays on April 9th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Experience Famous Gardening Government Health Leadership Romantic Teacher