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I’ll tell you about punk rock: punk rock is a word used by dilettantes, and heartless manipulators, about music… that takes up the energies, and the bodies, and the hearts and the souls and the time and the minds, of young men, who give what they have to it, and give everything they have to it. And it’s, it’s a term that’s based on contempt; it’s a term that’s based in fashion, style, elitism, satanism, and, everything that’s rotten about rock ‘n’ roll…I don’t know Johnny Rotten, but I’m sure he puts as much blood and sweat into what he does as Sigmund Freud did…You see, what sounds to you like a big load of trashy old noise…is in fact the brilliant music of a genius…myself. That music is so powerful that it’s quite beyond my control…and when I’m in the grips of it, I don’t feel pleasure and I don’t feel pain.
— Iggy Pop, the infamous interview with Peter Gzowski on the CBC.

10 months ago

26/9/09


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