Iggy Pop Quotes

I'm not a folk-singer. I just sing a certain place.

I'm called a folk singer, and I'm not too sure about that. I went about my life approaching music not from the point of view of a singer, but from the point of view of an actor. That's how I first started to sing.

You know, somebody mentioned that I was sort of a jazz-pop singer. And I'm thrilled that somebody would find that, at last, in my presentation, because it's such a part of where I live.

Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music.

The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.

It's the clothes that influence the music I'm going to play.

If twang isn't what I do, I don't know what is.

Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things.

For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business. He excites me when I watch him. He moves me. He's the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more.

The 'Voice Kids U.K.' songs were chosen for me, and I had to try and make them mine.

As far as guitar picking, if I make the same mistakes at the same time every day, people will start calling it a style.

I can't really describe my sound.

I know my style of music is very eclectic.

I try to project not only a song but a personality.

If I'm anything, I'm not a singer but I'm a song stylist.

For me, growing-up music was always about telling stories.

We were bunched up with Southern bands, and there's nothing wrong with that at all. We just wanted to make it clear we weren't a Southern band.

I never thought I was playing black music. I was just playing music, the stuff I liked. I sang blues at parties and things when I was a kid.

It doesn't really matter what chords I play, what words I say or time of day it is, as it's only a Northern Song.

The way I was singing the songs was jazz

Anyway, in my performance style, I'm a singer-songwriter. People can call it neo-soul or R&B or whatever. But at the core, when you see me live, I'm a singer-songwriter.

I would say that I'm very proud that Metallica plays heavy music - but equally proud that we don't think like a heavy-metal band.

Just because I don't sing about the normal country themes doesn't mean my songs aren't country. I'd rather sing about having fun.

I have my own style, but it's different for each kind of music. There are certain little characteristic things every player has.

A great singer has to learn how to inhabit a song.