Top 100 Iggy Quotes
#1. He [Iggy] started reaching for things around the table, and his hand landed on Total. "You're black."
"I prefer canine-American," said Total.
James Patterson
#2. The two basic social identities were Normal and Greaser; although a few sophisticated girls wore peace signs, hippies didn't exist, and while a seminal punk band, Iggy and the Stooges, was playing in nearby Ann Arbor, punk didn't exist yet, either.
Mary Gaitskill
#3. I just went to your typical public schools, and my dad would take us to the movies every week, or he'd buy scalped tickets to San Antonio Spurs games. I remember I was four or five years old and my parents, who were very young, took us to see The Police in Austin, and Iggy Pop opened.
Pedro Pascal
#4. 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.'
Iggy Pop
#5. Yeah," said Iggy. "But what now?
Let's do something fun."
I guess being on the run from
bloodthirsty Erasers and insane
scientists wasn't enough fun for him.
Kids today are so spoiled.
James Patterson
#6. Don't be afraid."
"I hear voices," Iggy said. "Be very afraid.
James Patterson
#7. So Fnick, can I change channel?" Iggy asked. "There's a game on."
"Make yourself at home, Figgy." Fang said.
James Patterson
#8. Iggy: Now what? Who you gonna call?
A quiet voice in the hallway outside: Ghostbusters!
(Captain Perry and John groan)
John: That phrase is ruined forever.
James Patterson
#9. I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that.
Lester Bangs
#10. I mean, gosh, my first tours I ever did were with the Ramones and Iggy Pop and Love & Rockets.
Perry Farrell
#11. Hey, Fnick can I change the channel, the game's on." -Iggy
"Make yourself at home, FIGGY" -Fang
James Patterson
#12. I have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll.
Henry Rollins
#13. I'm going to turn fifteen tomorrow," i said, warming to the idea. "It's high time. I can't remember when i turned fourteen." (said by Max)
If you get to be fifteen, then i get to be fifteen!" Iggy sounded indignant.
i looked at Fang. "Wanna be fifteen?"
His smile melted me. "Yeah.
James Patterson
#14. Iggy: I'll grab a zebra; Gaz, you fill all the bubbles with your trademark scent. so people are choking and gagging; and let's throw beef jerky in their eyes! Now, that's a plan!
James Patterson
#15. Don't think about jumping, Iggy. We're going about
seventy, and despite my orders, we're on our way to Puebla.
So keep your ass glued in the goddamn seat.
Aliyah Burke
#16. Nudge: You aren't dead.
Iggy (irritably): No. You aren't dead either. How about just 'hello'?
James Patterson
#17. There's "Bloodstains" by Agent Orange. "Rise Above" by Black Flag. "Streets of San Francisco" by the Swingin' Utters. "Gimme Danger" by Iggy and the Stooges.
Jason Myers
#18. Jeez, was that a lion? Please tell me it's behind bars."
"It's a zoo, Iggy," Nudge said, taking his arms and leading him. "Everything's behind bars.
James Patterson
#19. I want my room to smell just like this. Iggy inhaled deeply as the scents flame-broiled burgers and hot french fries wafted around us.
'it would be an improvement.' I agreed.
James Patterson
#20. Great, they give blind kids guns," I said, trying to lessen his horror. "I don't even let Iggy have a gun. Usually.
James Patterson
#21. I think JLo and iggy azalea have lost their heads up each other's big butts,
Brody Dalle
#22. Iggy Pop, or should I say Iggy's people, had reached out to me saying he was a True Blood fan, and if any opportunities come up, to please keep Iggy in mind. We sent Iggy the demo of 'LB&R'. He loved it and said, 'Sign me up.'
Gary Calamar
#23. I remember Iggy and the Stooges' song 'Search and Destroy' reaching out from my speakers to me like my own personal anthem.
Nikki Sixx
#24. While silly ni**as argue over who gon' snatch the crown / Look around my ni**a, white people have snatched the sound / This year I'll probably go to the awards dappered down / Watch Iggy win a Grammy as I try to crack a smile.
J. Cole
#25. Iggy. This is not a democracy," I said,( ... )"It's
a Maxocracy.
James Patterson
#26. 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.
Iggy Pop
#27. I've been listening to how the Roman Empire fell and all I can say is, it didn't fall nearly fast enough!-Iggy
James Patterson
#28. I'm not a singer, a walking instrument like Aretha Franklin. When you get an Iggy Pop record, you don't get "Iggy Sings." I am also a style of music, an approach.
Iggy Pop
#29. All I really wanted to do was make an album that was going to be just back to what I like to do ... And it was a coincidence that these new bands, this new wave of bands, were doing Alice and Iggy rock.
Alice Cooper
#30. Iggy nodded. "I'm bummed we couldn't use Big Boy," he said. "But I don't want to waste it. We have to actually see them first. I mean, you do."
"Maybe tomorrow," the Gasman said encouragingly. "We'll go see what havoc we've wreaked."
"Wrought.
James Patterson
#31. I give Iggy credit for deconstructing the very idea of entertainment.
Kim Gordon
#32. You're lying through your fangs," Iggy accused.
Fang tried to play innocent
but "innocent Fang" is an oxymoron, so it didn't work.
James Patterson
#33. Iggy Pop is God, if God looked half that good with his shirt off.
Kate Christensen
#34. It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how hard they lived.
Mick Rock
#35. Why was the blind guy playing with matches, you ask? Because he's good at it. Anything to do with fire, igniting things, exploding things, things with fuses, wicks, accelerants ... Iggy's your man. It's one of those good/bad things.
James Patterson
#36. Some cats, Iggy Pop, they're going to always have that hunger.
Nikki Sixx
#37. But we're all characters in our own stories, Iggy.
Kate Klise
#38. Iggy Azalea, I can't really get into her. Because it's just not real to me,
Rah Digga
#39. i'm no good-girl-gone bad or goin O-na-na like Rihanna, but I'm gonna Work It like Iggy and Ride Like Lana.
Bee
#40. I have an idea. It's risky, and Max will kill us when she finds out."
Iggy raised his head. "Sounds like my kind of idea.
James Patterson
#41. Okeydokey," I said to myself. "Provisions, check. Clothes, check. Enough explosives to pose a legitimate threat to multiple small countries-" I eyed the duffel bags that Gazzy and Iggy had packed- "check.
James Patterson
#42. It was when I saw Iggy Pop, that's what did it for me. That changed my life pretty much.
Alan Vega
#43. Iggy Pop looks right at me as he sings the line: 'America takes drugs in psychic defence'; only he changes 'America' to 'Scatlin', and defines us mair accurately in a single sentence than all the others have ever done.
Irvine Welsh
#44. After all, Fnick is Superman," said Iggy.
"Shut up, Jeff," I said, but I was smiling. I lifted Iggy's fingers to my face so that he knew.
James Patterson
#45. Only Marxists," Dr. Iggy concluded, opening the door to usher Joe into the chapel room, "still
believe in an objective history. Marxists and a few disciples of Ayn Rand.
Robert Shea
#46. He's gonna be fine," I confirmed. "Can we see him?" Iggy asked. "Ig, I hate to break this to you, but you're blind," I said, my relief making me tease him. "However, in a little while you can go listen to him breathe and maybe talk to him.
James Patterson
#47. How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy.
Saul Bellow
#48. 'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.
Iggy Azalea
#50. Max: "Okay guys, I had a couple thoughts I wanted to go over with you."
Iggy: (pretends to snore loudy)
Max: (throws another pinecone at him)
Iggy: "Quit throwing things at me!"
Max: "Glad you could join us.
James Patterson
#51. Iggy's spine tightened, his face like ice. When he'd been at the School, they'd tried to surgically enhance his night vision. Now he was blind forever. Oops.
James Patterson
#52. Look, I guess it's natural, you're teenagers, its springtime,everyone's thoughts are turning to birds and bees and caterpillars and moths ...
- Iggy
James Patterson
#53. Gazzy called over to me "I can't see anything!"
"I can't see anything either," Iggy complained.
"I'm rolling my eyes, Ig." I had to tell him that because he couldn't see me do it, what with his blindness and all.
James Patterson
#55. I couldn't leave Total behind."
"Total?" Iggy asked.
"That's what his card said," Angel explained.
"Totally a mutant dog who will probably turn on us and kill us in our sleep," Fang said.
James Patterson
#57. I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.
Ville Valo
#58. I feel like, like pudding," Iggy groaned. "Pudding with nerve endings. Pudding in great pain.
James Patterson
#60. I knew about things like Iggy Pop and The Velvet Underground, weirdly, before I knew about David Bowie. I didn't know what David Bowie was, when I was a kid. I thought he was like Visage.
Stewart Lee
#61. I want to be able to see stuff," Iggy said. "Like I used to, when I was little. And I want to be able to totally kick Jeb's butt.
James Patterson
#62. The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong.
Arto Lindsay
#63. It's the ciiiiiiiiiiiiircle of liiiiiiiiiife! Iggy sang
James Patterson
#64. The Grammys are supposed to be awards for artistic excellence ... Iggy Azalea's not excellent,
Azealia Banks
#65. We're famous" iggy whispered so low that Fang could barely hear him.
"So's Swine Flu" Fang whispered back.
James Patterson
#66. When I hear myself singing, I hear Iggy Pop and Jimi Hendrix. There's a conversational thing going on. I suppose it depends on which The Pretenders song you're listening to.
Chrissie Hynde
#67. Does anything on you work properly?" Asked ter Borcht.
"Well, I do have a highly developed sense of irony." Replied Iggy.
James Patterson
#68. Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.
Kate Christensen
#70. T.I.'s my mentor; he's a really close friend of mine. I call him my brother like we talk on the phone all the time. He's helped me with my career.
Iggy Azalea
#71. A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don't feel great about, and it'll make you feel so bad it'll destroy you and kill you.
Iggy Pop
#72. She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
Iggy Pop
#73. It's okay, Ig." said Fang. "Just give it your best shot." Sometimes the Fangster is incredibly supportive, just not with me.
James Patterson
#74. At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.
Iggy Pop
#75. Being talked about like a package - I feel like that all the time.
Iggy Azalea
#76. Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.
Iggy Pop
#77. For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
Iggy Azalea
#78. When it comes to art, money is an unimportant detail. It just happens to be a huge unimportant detail.
Iggy Pop
#79. There are no pimps, no whores, no transvestites - gone. Now that's more the culture I'm comfortable in ... I don't like it in the house, you know what I mean, but I like it somewhere around.
Iggy Pop
#80. As far as people whose style interests me, I'd say Grace Kelly, Gwen, Spice Girls, Victoria Beckham, and that nanny called Fran.
Iggy Azalea
#81. 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.
Iggy Pop
#82. Studios are like hospitals. A lot of people check in, and they don't check out.
Iggy Pop
#83. The future of rock n roll is Justin Bieber.
Iggy Pop
#84. 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.
Iggy Pop
#85. I was feeling that I was the in the dead-end circuit from 1980 to 1983, and I didn't know what else to do. I remember doing a show in some college town, in a tiny club, and afterward some fans came back. I thought I had done good gig and they were going to tell me that.
Iggy Pop
#87. Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.
Iggy Pop
#88. Anyone's happier when they're not being verbally abused all day long.
Iggy Azalea
#89. 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.
Iggy Pop
#90. I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
Iggy Azalea
#91. I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.
Iggy Pop
#92. I stayed in L.A. long enough to get on my feet, and then I moved back to New York. The reason I moved here was that I don't feel warm outside of a city; it's too barren in the suburbs, and L.A. is a suburb. Here, it felt active.
Iggy Pop
#93. I love musk oil. There's something about musk that makes it memorable without being overpowering.
Iggy Azalea
#94. The most successful stuff is sold to you as indispensable social information. The message in the music is, 'We are terribly, terribly slick and suave, and if you listen to us, you can probably get a leg up in society, too.'
Iggy Pop
#95. At the very worst, if I have a short-lived career, at least I could say I sparked a change - that I inspired some leniency in what people accept in hip-hop. And if I have a very long career and can be gyrating in a leotard at 35, that would be great.
Iggy Azalea
#96. I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.
Iggy Azalea
#97. My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.
Iggy Pop
#98. People think I'm more wild than I am ... I like going to theme parks, play sports or just hanging out with my friends.
Iggy Azalea
#100. I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
Iggy Pop
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