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" A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process. "
Henry Rollins
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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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" When a band becomes as truly iconic as the Velvet Underground, there will often be a box set released, overburdened with mediocre material that dilutes what was fine left on its own. "
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" Live music is the cure for what ails ya. "
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" As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not. "
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" I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool. "
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" I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave. "
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" I believe that contentment or any sustained period of joy that doesn't inspire thought that leads to action almost immediately is useless. "
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" August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame. That, coupled with the oppressive heat and humidity of my native Washington, D.C., only seemed to heighten the misery. "
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" The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a long time. "
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Opportunity
" I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you. "
Henry Rollins
You
Fate
Destiny
" Songs sung under duress are often very powerful. "
Henry Rollins
Duress
Very
Powerful
" August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina. "
Henry Rollins
Endurance
Los Angeles
Tests
" Adolescence is a plague on the senses. "
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Adolescence
Plague
" If I hear, 'Be afraid of Tehran,' I'm like, 'I'd better go to Tehran.' "
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" Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre for its intensity, extremism and underlying irony: You have to be alive to play it and listen to it. "
Henry Rollins
Enjoy
Death
Black
" Those who seek to profit by division don't stand a chance. "
Henry Rollins
Division
Seek
Stand
" Maybe I'm ego-tripping, but I don't find myself a particularly horrible person, so I don't think I need to hold back anything I think or feel. "
Henry Rollins
Find
Need
Think
" I'm not artistic nor am I all that creative. "
Henry Rollins
Am
Nor
Artistic
" Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock. "
Henry Rollins
Rock
Everything
Me
" I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it. "
Henry Rollins
I Am
Doing
Good
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
Life
Acceptance
Failure
" When you're going into an employment environment that looks pretty scary, it is easy to lose your moral compass, your decency, your sense of civility and your sense of community. "
Henry Rollins
Environment
Community
Moral
" Life is weird, great and dangerous. "
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Weird
Life
Great
" Dinosaur Jr. in their live capacity are a band that put me in a state of such overwhelming rock that it often takes quite a while to come down. "
Henry Rollins
Band
Live
Dinosaur
" Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches. "
Henry Rollins
People
Me
Down
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
Me
Road
Amazing
" To burn a CDR of music you like to give as a gift to someone you wish to become closer to is a cold, moist-palmed, mouth-breathing bummer. "
Henry Rollins
Burn
You
Wish
" It is just that I don't want a wife and I don't want kids. "
Henry Rollins
Just
Wife
Kids
" Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound. "
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Sound
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World
" My motto is, 'Never quit.' "
Henry Rollins
My Motto
Never Quit
Quit