I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
Iggy PopSomething I like to do a lot is just sit by water when thereโs a current and just stare into the water. I donโt fish, I donโt hunt, I donโt scuba, I donโt spear, donโt boat, donโt play basketball or football โ I excel at staring into space. Iโm really good at that.
Iggy PopMiami is nothing like me, and thats why I need to be here - its the opposite. Im practical, where this place is moody, Im stolid in my interior, where this place has a certain flair, and Im materialistic in a sense that this place is fundamentally spiritual - theres a quicksilver quality about this place.
Iggy PopA lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they donโt feel great about, and itโll make you feel so bad itโll destroy you and kill you.
Iggy PopMy general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.
Iggy PopIn the morning I'd write these essays, anything that I'd feel like writing, and in the afternoon, I'd spend time with my guitar. I had decided after listening to my last four or five albums that my biggest weakness musically was melody. the reason I had been singing in a monotone over the chord patterns in my songs was that I never practiced doing melodies.
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