Henry Rollins Quotes
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He looked at her Something Turned cancerous He was in love.
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Help me to withstand your beauty as it stands out of reach. Give me the capacity to forget ever having felt your touch.
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If the death of Osama Bin Laden brings any peace to those who lost loved ones on that awful day in September 2001, that is a great thing. It is more likely, however, just a painful reminder of what was lost.
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Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.
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Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.
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Punk-rock gave music back to people. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16 and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that. Me and [Minor Threat and Fugazi vocalist] Ian MacKaye would go to these concerts, and it was fun.
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Music files and downloading have indeed changed the currency of music to a great degree.
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Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience's attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say.
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For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.
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The only safety is in the middle of total misunderstanding and deception.
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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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Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.
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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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I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.
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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've never killed anybody... but I've definitely thought about it.
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Quite often people will get an animal which is probably not a good idea for them to have. They get it out of enthusiasm, there is a genuine interest, but sometimes they're not exactly prepared for what they're getting themselves into.
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I don't have talent. I have tenacity.
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I got my heart broken. My spirit got shattered and mutilated. I will not be coming back from this. I don’t want to.
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I beg young people to travel. If you don't have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you're going to see your country differently, you're going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You're going to get a sense of what globalization looks like.
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I beg young people to travel. If you don't have a passport, get one.........the re are lessons that you can't get out of a book that are waiting for you at the other end of that flight. A lot of people - Americans and Europeans - come back and go, "ohhhhh." And the lightbulb goes on.
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Every single record I have is a fossil.
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I get letters from young people telling me that they're broke and download my albums for free. They ask me what I think about that. I now have a standard line. I tell them, 'I would rather be heard than paid.'
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I know you’ll never love me but maybe you’ll stay for awhile.