Iggy Pop (interview 1977)

No sé quién inventó el "punk". No sé si fueron los mc5 o los Monks o, mejor aún, Los Saicos. No importa, ni siquiera sé si esa música valga realmente la pena o simplemente salió porque el progresivo empezaba a aburrir, pero como tal alguien empezó a usar esa etiqueta a partir de los Ramones o tal vez de los Sex Pistols, sin embargo sé que estos dos grupos no hubieran sido nada sin Iggy Pop y su banda.

Esto pensaba Iggy, 8 años después de lanzar su primer disco con The Stooges, cuando empezó a utilizarse dicha palabra:

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.
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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 that? When you just, when you just, you couldn’t feel anything, and you didn’t want to either. You know, like that? Do you understand what I’m saying, sir?

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