Henry Rollins Quotes
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I am too far gone to be rehabilitated.
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Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.
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If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.
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The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.
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Canadians are often a friendly bunch.
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'SMiLE' is perhaps the Beach Boys' most legendary album. It was recorded in 1966 and 1967 but only saw a formal release in 2011. That's a long time to wait for what was said to be Brian Wilson's masterpiece.
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Whenever I write lyrics, in the back of my mind I always see a guy driving to work, driving to a really bad job, one of those horrible institutions, or one of those low squat buildings in Los Angeles. I write with that person in my mind.
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It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it.
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America was cool with Saddam Hussein when he was killing Iranians.
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I'm most comfortable on stage.
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The visceral nature of hard rock music, the fact that you can have this sledge hammering sound - and that you can hook a lyric up and a feeling up to something and make the lyric jump into this machine that crushes. That has always been really attractive to me, that kind of power.
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I'm disappointed by bands left and right, every day.
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I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience.
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Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, 'I have two moms - it's cool.' I don't fear that at all.
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I must tell you that I was always afraid of the fury with which I loved you. It overwhelmed me. I thought it beyond comprehension, therefore my silence.
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It is our destiny to be born beautiful into an ugly age.
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Trying to write music, be in a band and keep it all happening is one of the hardest, morale-destroying, heartbreaking things you will ever try to do - and that's when it's going well.
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What I felt for you was a combination of respect and affection. There was a closeness I felt through intimate interaction. The affection part is all over with. All that remains is the respect. If I put my arms around you and told you that I missed you, I would be lying. You're alright with me and I wish you well. But you're not me and that makes you one of them and you can only get so close.
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She touches me The jungle lights up with incinerating fire Looks like a flaming serpent I look into her eyes I see a movie flickering Car crashes People kicking corpses Men ripping their tracheas out and shaking them at the sky I think to myself: I don’t want to survive this one I want to burn up in the wreckage Cooking flesh in the jungle
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It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point.
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Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.
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The times I have tried to get close to someone resulted in me feeling threatened and weak.
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Technically speaking, there is no music whatsoever on a CD. Lots of information, but no music.
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You can say, "Well, I have a question," and someone will say, "Oh, so you hate America." And it has nothing to do with the discussion at all.