Top 80 Iggy Pop Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I am the passenger, I stay under glass. I look through my window so bright, I see the stars come out tonight. I see the bright and hollow sky, over the city’s ripped backsides and everything looks good tonight.”

— Iggy Pop

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2. “They say that death kills you, But death doesn’t kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.”

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3. “Cigarettes and coffee, man, that’s a combination.”

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4. “Nihilism is best done by professionals.”

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5. “I’m bored, I’m the chairman of the board.”

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6. “Music is life, and life is not a business.”

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7. “I’m a travel enthusiast.”

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8. “I’m a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm.”

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9. “I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.”

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10. “Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.”

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11. “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.”

— Iggy Pop

12. “Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there’s a current and just stare into the water. I don’t fish, I don’t hunt, I don’t scuba, I don’t spear, don’t boat, don’t play basketball or football – I excel at staring into space. I’m really good at that.”

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13. “If I started thinking too much about how influential I’ve been, then I’d be more of a turd than I already am.”

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14. “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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15. “Nobody understands me, I’m really sensitive.”

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16. “Miami’s never been more than a spit from New York.”

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17. “When it comes to art, money is an unimportant detail. It just happens to be a huge unimportant detail.”

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18. “I have no idea why a guy would bring a jar of peanut butter to a concert.”

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19. “As society has changed, what had formerly been unacceptable has become colourful.”

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20. “I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don’t believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.”

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21. “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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22. “What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.”

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23. “I never say never about anything.”

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24. “The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.”

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25. “I’ll love you when my eyes are open, I’ll love you when my eyes are gone.”

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26. “The future of rock n roll is Justin Bieber.”

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27. “It is very important what not to do.”

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28. “I’m a little bit damaged in about 15 different ways, and it’s been nice that no particular damaged area has become a major issue. I’m a more than moderately healthy 65-year-old male who has gotten away with a lot of stuff.”

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29. “What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.”

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30. “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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31. “My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of ‘the arts’ began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we’re the parents of Iggy Pop.”

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32. “When I get up in the morning, I stay nude for three or four hours. If I really feel like getting formal, I’ll put on board shorts.”

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33. “Second only to the sea, the Miami sky has been the greatest comfort in my life past 50. On a good day, when the wind blows from the south, the light here is diffuse and forgiving.”

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34. “Bowie’s a real man, and I’m a real woman – just like Catherine Deneuve.”

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35. “I’m glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they’re lying.”

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36. “I became Iggy because I had a sadistic boss at a record store. I’d been in a band called the Iguanas. And when this boss wanted to embarrass and demean me, he’d say, ‘Iggy, get me a coffee, light.’”

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37. “I feel a great comfort and relief knowing that there are others who lived and died and thought and fought so long ago; I feel less tyrannized by the present day.”

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38. “I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.”

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39. “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.”

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40. “And for so long, I had thought if I was going to write a song, or get “into” something, I had to at least smoke a joint or something. And that didn’t work anymore. Once I was fairly well cleaned out, even a little bit of a drug getting into my work threw me off kilter.”

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41. “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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42. “I smoked this joint and then it hit me. I thought, what you gotta do is play your own simply blues.”

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43. “The Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame was a great idea when it started, but I think they ought to close it, I think it’s full.”

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44. “Onstage I’ve been hit by a grapefruit, beercans, eggs, spit, money, cigarette butts, Mandies, Quaaludes, joints, bras, panties, and a fist.”

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45. “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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46. “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.”

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47. “What do you do with a lifetime of work? Face it in the morning.”

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48. “You know, I’m fifty-two now and I call myself a singer. Before I kick it I want to be able to carry a tune in a living room if called upon. Of course, mine come out all dark and twisted and weird.”

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49. “You know what I think you get scared of more – especially me, after touring for so long and being in bands for so long – you start to associate certain behavior with the music. It’s like people associate having a cigarette with having a cup of coffee, or lunch.”

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50. “Well, I don’t use the toilet much to pee in. I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee on my estate.”

— Iggy Pop