Iggy Pop
Iggy Pop
James Newell Osterberg, Jr., known professionally as Iggy Pop, is an American singer-songwriter, musician and actor. He was the vocalist of influential proto-punk band The Stooges, who reunited in 2003, and is well known for his outrageous and unpredictable stage antics...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPunk Singer
Date of Birth21 April 1947
CityMuskegon, MI
CountryUnited States of America
amusement fond
I mean, the embarrassment quotient has been going down for a long time, and the fond amusement has been rising.
kind
I'm not the kind of person that likes to be dependent.
bowie macho sort
Well, I've never had any sort of macho revulsion of fags, but Bowie and I - never, never, never, never.
heartless men minds music takes time word
'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.
music-is-life life-is music-is
Music is life, and life is not a business.
drinking christ fisherman
What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.
boredom indifference
They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.
getting-older getting-high stage
Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
walks walking
The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
hallucinations music-is heard
Really good music isn't just to be heard, you know? It's almost like a hallucination
scare needs world
What the world needs right now... a good, artistic, gothic, terrifying scare
nice kids fire
I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.
rip ideas people
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.
illegal-things car way
I spent most of the eighties, most of my life, riding around in somebody else's car, in possession of, or ingested of, something illegal, on my way from something illegal to something illegal with many illegal things happening all around me