Iggy Pop (James Newell Osterberg Jr.) Quotes

Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.

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• Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.

  

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• Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.

  

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• Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.

  

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• In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.

  

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• No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights.

  

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• Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

  

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• Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason.

  

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• You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.

  

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• My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!

  

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• I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.

  

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• Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.

  

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• I love finding new creative partnerships but then continuing the partnerships I'm already in.

  

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• The acting came about because of a girl. I was 19 and met a girl who wanted to go to the premiere drama school in Australia, the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, where Mel Gibson, Cate Blanchett and many others went. She had an audition, and I went with her for moral support - to cheer her on. I did an audition my way, and it kept going.

  

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• Every song I write is autobiographical and is about people, and that's one of the things that gets complicated. You have to decide where's your place as a songwriter.

  

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• My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.

  

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• How could he ever be her friend and not understand this very basic part of who she was? Would he have a friend who chose to marry someone who hated people with Down’s syndrome? But, of course, white folks in this country are trained to believe they can have it both ways, like stealing the Indian’s land while claiming to admire the Noble Savage.

  

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• I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.

  

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• All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.

  

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• If a person does not harm any living being...and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a true spiritual practitioner.

  

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• Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Living
  • England
  • Easygoing