# Music — Please Quote Me

Subcategories: [Rock and Roll](https://pleasequoteme.com/categories/rock-and-roll.md)

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> Mr. Pop is passionate. It's pretty obvious he's kind of a wild guy, but he has standards; he has a controlled madness, and this is what it's really all about.

— Debbie Harry, on Iggy Pop (Rolling Stone (interview by Elisabeth Garber-Paul), 2020)
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> Sid's quite awkward and talks in spurts like he thinks it's stupid to have a point of view, but he's got to communicate, so he forces the words out.

— Viv Albertine, on Sid Vicious (Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys (Viv Albertine), 2014)
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> All the things I'm so embarrassed about, John's made into virtues. He's unapologetic about who he is and where he comes from.

— Viv Albertine, on John Lydon (Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys (Viv Albertine), 2014)
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> I really learned it was over the day we sacked Topper, and not the day we sacked Mick.

— Joe Strummer, on Topper Headon, Mick Jones (Los Angeles Times (interview by Richard Cromelin), 1988)
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> I was trying to prove that I was the Clash and it wasn't [Mick (Jones)].

— Joe Strummer, on Mick Jones (Los Angeles Times (interview by Richard Cromelin), 1988)
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> I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth.

— Patti Smith, on Robert Mapplethorpe (Just Kids (Patti Smith, Ecco/HarperCollins), 2010)
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> I thought to myself that he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know.

— Patti Smith, on Robert Mapplethorpe (Just Kids (Patti Smith, Ecco/HarperCollins), 2010)
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> I been talking to him in my brain for 12 years, and now I don't have nothing to say to him.

— Patti Smith, on Bob Dylan (Rolling Stone (interview by Dave Marsh), 1976)
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> Jim Morrison was trying to elevate the word; he was the poet in rock & roll before me.

— Patti Smith, on Jim Morrison (Rolling Stone (interview by Dave Marsh), 1976)
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> John Lennon at his best despised cheap sentiment and had to learn the hard way that once you've made your mark on history those who can't will be so grateful they'll turn it into a cage for you.

— Lester Bangs, on John Lennon (The Village Voice, "Thinking the Unthinkable About John Lennon", 1980)
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> The Clash are authentic because their music carries such brutal conviction, not because they're Noble Savages.

— Lester Bangs, on The Clash (New Musical Express (NME), 1977)
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> The friendship was basically that this guy salvaged me from certain professional and maybe personal annihilation — simple as that.

— Iggy Pop, on David Bowie (The New York Times (interview by Jon Pareles), 2016)
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> 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.

— Iggy Pop, on John Lydon (CBC, 90 Minutes Live (interview by Peter Gzowski), 1977)
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> He said, "Why don't you write a song called 'Vicious'?" And I said, "Well, Andy, what kind of vicious?" "Oh, you know, vicious like I hit you with a flower." And I wrote it down, literally.

— Lou Reed, on Andy Warhol (Rolling Stone, 1989)
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