Iggy Pop - Music Quotes

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Really good music isn't just to be heard, you know?
It's almost like a hallucination

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I feel like God peed on all my enemies. For a long time I was very bitter that the people who controlled the means of anybody ever hearing my songs were never gonna play them. They only favored music that I specifically and particularly hated, and I wanted them dead. Suddenly, there was another avenue. I started hearing my stuff coming out of bars and then it started to happen little by little — a movie song here or a TV ad there.

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This is the key thing that has always been misunderstood about me. All this fucking crap they said I did... I only did it because I believed I was playing the actual music that was appropriate and good to reflect that time and place.... Frankly, I've always felt I was completely innocent.

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