Henry Rollins Quotes
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When you're little and you don't have much dough, you have to innovate. You have to be sharp.
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Will punk rock ever die? Pal, if you have to ask it's dead to you.
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Music files and downloading have indeed changed the currency of music to a great degree.
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August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer.
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With writing, there are multiple drafts. On stage, there is one take. I do a lot of preparation for shows, so, for the most part, what you hear me say is pretty much what I wanted to get at.
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I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.
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I'm constantly around people that talk a lot but say nothing. A sad case.
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It is instilled in thousands of American males from an early age that one of their requirements is to be able to both dish out and take a lot of pain. They are taught the rules of this road in gyms, rings, backyards and fields all over America.
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Every single record I have is a fossil.
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In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground.
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If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.
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As a young person growing up in Washington, D.C., summers were hot, humid and relentless. My friends and I grew more restless and adventurous with every passing year.
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No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.
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I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter tightens its grip.
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Entertainment's hard on the ego. I see why actors are so psycho now. Because there's so much 'we don't want you' going on in acting. Even big people get rejected but the smaller people - they really get rejected. Trust me - I know.
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I know you’ll never love me but maybe you’ll stay for awhile.
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If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back.
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I'm mellower now, I'm over 50. But I don't think I'm too mellow. I'm still angry at a lot of things.
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I love capitalism. It rewards me for being brave - it awards me for being innovative and thinking out of the box.
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Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.
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I've never killed anybody... but I've definitely thought about it.
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I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
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Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.
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We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost.