Iggy Pop
- singer
- actor
- guitarist
- songwriter
- recording artist
- rock musician
- composer
- musician
- Born 1947-04-21 (age 79)
- Nationality United States
- Years active 1965–present
Biography
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Known for
Filmography
See full filmography| Role | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | The Dead Don't Die | Movie | 72 | |
| 2003 | Coffee and Cigarettes | Movie | 56 | |
| 1995 | Dead Man | Movie | 48 | |
| 1990 | Cry-Baby | Movie | 43 | |
| 1986 | The Color of Money | Movie | 39 |
Career timeline
Award won Role or nomination
1947 age 0
Born1986 age 39
CreditThe Color of Money1990 age 43
CreditCry-Baby1995 age 48
CreditDead Man2003 age 56
CreditCoffee and Cigarettes2019 age 72
CreditThe Dead Don't Die
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Quotes
I'll tell you about punk rock: punk rock is a word used by dilettantes and, uh... and, uh... 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 a... it's a term that's based on contempt; it's a term that's based on fashion, style, elitism, satanism, and, everything that's rotten about rock 'n' roll. I don't know Johnny Rotten.. but I'm sure, I'm sure he puts as much blood and sweat into what he does as Sigmund Freud did. You see, what, what sounds to you like a big load of trashy old noise... is in fact... the brilliant music of a genius... myself. And that music is so powerful, that it's quite beyond my control. And, ah... when I'm in the grips of it, I don't feel pleasure and I don't feel pain, either physically or emotionally. Do you understand what I'm talking about? Have you ever, have you ever felt like
Iggy Pop, CC BY-SA 4.0
What I do on stage has utterly no purpose.
Iggy Pop, CC BY-SA 4.0
The industrialism in Detroit...what I heard walking around...boom boom bah - 10 cars...boom boom bah - 20 cars...I get a lot of my influence from the electric shaver...
Iggy Pop, CC BY-SA 4.0
I think I helped wipe out the sixties.
Iggy Pop, CC BY-SA 4.0
I feel like God peed on all my enemies. For a long time I was very bitter that the people who controlled the means of anybody ever hearing my songs were never gonna play them. They only favored music that I specifically and particularly hated, and I wanted them dead. Suddenly, there was another avenue. I started hearing my stuff coming out of bars and then it started to happen little by little — a movie song here or a TV ad there.
Iggy Pop, CC BY-SA 4.0
You know, I'm fifty-two now and I call myself a singer. Before I kick it I want to be able to carry a tune in a living room if called upon. Of course, mine come out all dark and twisted and weird.
Iggy Pop, CC BY-SA 4.0
TV appearances
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Facts
- Nationalities
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Years active
- 1965–
- Instruments
- guitar, percussion instrument, acoustic guitar, keyboard instrument, voice
- Voice type
- baritone
- Record labels
- Arista Records, I.R.S. Records, A&M Records, Chrysalis Records, Fat Possum Records, Virgin Records, RCA, Elektra, Virgin Music
- Genres
- rock music, hard rock, proto-punk, garage rock, 펑크 록, glam rock, post-punk, alternative rock
- Education
- Pioneer High School, University of Michigan