Henry Rollins Quotes
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My first visit to West Berlin was in February 1983. The drive through East Berlin, the fact that West Berlin was surrounded by a wall that was more than 100 miles long - the absurdity and intensity of it really knocked me out.
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Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.
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Castle Face Records, run by The Oh Sees main man, Johnny Dwyer is always worth checking in with.
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In America, quite often, for people from a certain economic position two choices become very evident as to their adult life. One is crime, one is the military. And it is quite often that some people choose one or the other, their options not being as many as someone from a higher income.
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But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.
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Will punk rock ever die? Pal, if you have to ask it's dead to you.
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I wonder if the guy at the gun store would give me a discount on the bullets I'll need if I told him what I was up to.
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The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing back. He's sticking it to the man as he sees it. I like that. So that is punk.
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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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Sometimes when you meet a musician you are a fan of, and he or she isn't the friendliest person, you walk away from the experience wondering if you will ever be able to listen to their music again.
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What goes best with a cup of coffee? Another cup.
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August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.
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I am always interested in an opportunity to learn something.
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Americans are poorly served by their media, you know, for the war machine and propaganda machine and the global empire and they're poorly served by what they are being told is representative government.
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I mean Black Flag happened. I was lucky. I don't think I could have put together something with one percent of that oomph on my own.
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You are the untold story. You are the impassioned truth wanting to scream its existence, to be forever trapped by a strong hand clapped firmly over the mouth of my soul.
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I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back.
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All my big heroes are literary, writers.
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I see walking bombs on the street Hearts not beating, but ticking
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Rush Limbaugh makes money getting simpleminded people to feel good about their intellectually undernourished brain spasms. He's very good at it, and I scarcely believe a fraction of what he says.
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It is impossible, after a certain point, to go back to a previous way of life, a previous way of thinking.
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The truth is an anti-war statement in itself.
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I continually remind myself to live by a code. It's very important to me. I've got a bad temper.
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For myself, I can't understand a life without a job. I don't know what I would do without employment. Retirement is out of the question for me.