Iggy Pop Quotes

Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.

What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.

What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.

I love wearing a lot of color, and I am majorly into scarves. I'm the Beau Brummell of Fleetwood Mac, no doubt.

You ready? I have gold teeth, I have braids, I'm wearing Rick Owens moon boots, I have rips in my denim, a biker vest, I love artsy girls, my favourite artists are Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon. I'm obsessed with being different.

I guess my style is a cross between David Bowie and Clint Eastwood.

Success is for creeps.

Elvis stole his sideburns from me.

Coming from art school, I had a great sense of style - as did The Beatles and the Stones - and I enjoyed projecting that. Image, attitude, great music and great lyrics - that was the '60s.

I meet people who are so sniffy about daytime TV.

I look at Van Halen as social workers. What we're really doing is creating jobs for rock critics.

The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.

The term "genius" gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.

I don't think rock music has any positive function.

Call me a relic, call me what you will, say I'm old fashion, say I'm over the hill. Today's music ain't got the same soul, I like that old time rock and roll.

Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.

T-Bone Burnett once said that much of rock music is simply someone going wahhh daddy.

I don't think many people were, but I love the black, the tassels and the leather, obviously. I'm still wearing that. I haven't let go of that. I love all things leather, and so I love that from her outfits as well. But I don't know if I would necessarily do the Mozart top, the button down, the 'Hot For Teacher' kind of look. That's not really my thing. I would let that one go.

When people say stuff like, "Oh, that's soft rock. I don't listen to that," I find that elitist. It's music-racist.

Every rock song is some variation of 'Pull down your pants'

I love fashion, but I'm not obsessed with it.

A gentleman can never have too many bow ties.

I think a woman is sexy when she's in nice clothes, flattering clothes. I don't think that being half-dressed in little half-tops... I don't find that sexy.

Rock music will never die. We all know that.

Pure, white rock 'n' roll, with no blues influence.