Henry Rollins quotes - page 20

It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to talk about music, it's all marketing, and that's part of a record, you gotta get it out there, people have gotta hear it, but you could do it in a way that's not repulsive. (Henry Rollins)
I don't know if you have ever seen the Woody Allen film 'Annie Hall,' but it is, in a way, to Los Angeles and 'Hollywood' what 'This Is Spinal Tap' is to many musicians. View quote
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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. View quote
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I hate painting with a broad brush, but I think the birther thing, at its root, is racist. The guy was born in Hawaii. A black guy is president. It's cool. Get over it. Just deal with it. There's nothing you could show these birther people that would shut them up. View quote
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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.' View quote
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I don't need to have my convictions confirmed by a show of numbers. However, being among people in front of a band leads me to believe that all is not lost, that humans, now and then, can communicate on a higher level than the political and the practical. View quote
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I don't know how much you follow current events. For some, there's not enough time to keep up on what's happening; for others, the news is too depressing, and peering too deeply fills one with boiling frustration all too quickly. View quote
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I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail. View quote
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My mother, a very eclectic listener, had the first Doors album and gave it to me when I expressed interest in the band. It was one of the first records I ever had. As the years passed, the babysitters who used to look after me would bring their Doors albums to the apartment, and that's how I got to hear their later work. View quote
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Those who seek to profit by division don't stand a chance. View quote
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I think it's fantastic when the young enrage their elders. I really do believe that if it's too loud, you are indeed too old, and that if it has been standing for too long, it needs a thorough inspection. (Henry Rollins)
Imagine someone so infatuated by a band that they have every different pressing of every album the band made. Most of the time, the only difference in the album is the matrix number or a different 'made in' notation on the back cover or label. This is enough to make some people extremely excited. Actually, much more than excited. View quote
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In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song. View quote
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To combat the confusion and depression that assault me when I come off the road in the middle of a tour, I seek the most oblivionated music possible. When it's the 'way out there' that I seek, I go right to my stash of amazing music from Japan. View quote
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Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business. View quote
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There's something about being under-rested and knowing that the situation is going to remain that way for quite some time that makes things more meaningful. View quote
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'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit. View quote
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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. View quote
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I don't mind bees and think we are all the better for having them around. I like the taste of honey. View quote
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Rock is ironic in that, up to a certain point, you can get better and better at it if you don't mind possibly looking more and more ridiculous. View quote
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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. (Henry Rollins)
I don't believe it mattered to Timothy McVeigh who was president or who his congressional representative was when he blew up the Murrah Building in 1995. View quote
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America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave. View quote
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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. View quote
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Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts. View quote
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