Iggy Pop
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"Iggy Pop" is an American rock music/rock singer-songwriter, musician, and actor. Osterberg became known as "Iggy" in high school, when he served as drummer for a local blues band, The Iguanas. He is vocalist of the influential protopunk band The Stooges, who reunited in 2003, and has been known for his outrageous and unpredictable stage antics.

Iggy's music has encompassed a number of styles over the years, including rock, hard rock, New wave music/new wave and pop, jazz, art rock and blues music/blues. Though his popularity has fluctuated through the years, many of Pop's songs have become well-known, including "Lust for Life (song)/Lust for Life", "The Passenger (song)/The Passenger", "Wild One (Johnny O'Keefe song)/Real Wild Child", "Candy (Iggy Pop song)/Candy" (a duet with Kate Pierson of The B-52's), "China Girl (song)/China Girl", "Nightclubbing (song)/Nightclubbing", "Search and Destroy (The Stooges song)/Search and Destroy" and "I Wanna Be Your Dog".

In 2010, The Stooges were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.

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I can't do it all myself. I'm not that kind of artist, I'm the kind of artist who works off other people best. It was like playing with Tinker toys or dominoes, trying to get all the pieces to fit like a jigsaw puzzle so I'd have a whole portrait but it would still have many facets.

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If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop.

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Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive.

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Nihilism is best done by professionals.

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What do you do with a lifetime of work? Face it in the morning.

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Look, you're here to see me, and I can't go on until my dealer is here, and he's waiting to be paid, so give me some money so I can fix up, and then you'll get your show.

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What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.

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Well, the stuff that has become more commercial doesn't have any edge.

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I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.'... I think I'm the greatest, anyway.

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I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.

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