Henry Rollins Quotes
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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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What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment of the New York music experience.
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I'm actually on the Twitter like all those crazy young kids are, and if I'm going to do an in-store appearance or I post something on my website, I tweet these followers, a word I don't like so much, and over 50,000 people go, like, 'Okay, I got it.'
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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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My first introduction to African music was by my mother, who bought the 'Pata Pata' album by the great Miriam Makeba when it came out. Now that is an album. What a voice.
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I think it's very sad that the political landscape is so dotted with religious extremists who feel the need to infringe upon the lives of decent, free and harmless Americans who want nothing more than to be in love and to spend the rest of their lives together.
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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 prefer to work out alone. It enables me to concentrate on the lessons that the Iron has for me.
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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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I know you’ll never love me but maybe you’ll stay for awhile.
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For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.
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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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Music files and downloading have indeed changed the currency of music to a great degree.
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Every single record I have is a fossil.
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I'm not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I'm weird, but it's not harmful weird.
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I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person.
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I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright.
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The tasks I set out for myself are what I do to beat the perfect pointlessness of life.
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We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
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The only thing about sanctions is that, like a lot of drone strikes, there are countless unintended victims. Cutting off aid to Uganda only increases the pain there.
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I have watched independent record stores evaporate all over America and Europe. That's why I go into as many as I can and buy records whenever possible. If we lose the independent record store, we lose big. Every time you buy your records at one of these places, it's a blow to the empire.
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The only thing worse than the Pastor Terry Jones scheduled Koran burning is the fact that he canceled the proposed event.
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There’s one thing about Black Sabbath which should not be understated: If Black Sabbath is missing any one of its members it’s no longer Black Sabbath.