Iggy Pop (James Newell Osterberg Jr.) Quotes
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.
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I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
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Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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Time was God's first creation.
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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
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Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
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Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.
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'Sairat' is a film I absolutely loved. I have great regard for the movie and its film-maker. The movie blew my mind.
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Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
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I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
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I just wanted to defend football, which is not always easy to do. Those of us who have been in the sport so many years now realise we must protect it and look after it. I was speaking about football, what it means. It is our profession, it has been our lives, and we must take care of it a little.
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Most of the dramatism in Wagner comes from a very close link between the music and the language of the text. So much of the expressivity of Wagner's music dramas comes from the singers' capacity to play with the sound of the language. This kind of thing you can do very well in concert performance.
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Terrorism doesn't have a border. Terrorists attack Mumbai, Peshawar, and also Paris.
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For me, family comes over and above everything.
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I got hit up for a tampon commercial and so I asked [JD and Jo] if they had anything. Jo sent that over and I was like, "I love this track. Oh my god. It's so upbeat. It's so positive. It would be so great for a tampon commercial." That commercial never came through, so then I just had it. I was like, "That would be great for a Hillary [Clinton] song." I think it's so funny that it could be a tampon commercial.
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The inventors we remember didn't invent anything. They're the people who took somebody else's invention and made it commercially viable.
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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.
