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" As performers grow older, I reckon there are two ways they can go. They can either be up there, playing more deeply from their guts than ever, or they can be phoning it in so crassly that it leaves a lump in your throat as you leave the venue at the end of the show. "

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Henry Rollins

Way

You

Musicians

" Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business. "

" You can pass all the gun legislation you want. None of it will make me feel any more or less safe than I do right at this moment. "

" I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway. "

" I'm mellower now, I'm over 50. But I don't think I'm too mellow. I'm still angry at a lot of things. "

" Music files and downloading have indeed changed the currency of music to a great degree. "

" I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time. "

" In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon. "

" I think Perry Ferrell put independent music on a very good path with Lollapalooza. "

" Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting each other, digging new types of music, new foods, new ideas. You want to stop having so many wars? This could be a step in the right direction. "

" Technically speaking, there is no music whatsoever on a CD. Lots of information, but no music. "

" I try to get myself up and moving as early as possible. Optimum is to be on the treadmill while it is still dark outside. "

Henry Rollins

Try

Dark

" The world's a better place since I chose music. "

" You might as well enjoy the day - you never know when and how painfully it could all end. "

" I think it's important to have some documentation of the past. "

" 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. "

" Too bad that Paul Ryan confessed to being a fan of Rage Against The Machine. By doing so, he not only begged for a bucketing by many of their fans but actually got one from the band's guitar player, Tom Morello. "

" Some people see Black Friday as a much-needed break for their wallet. I see it as retail outlets showing the customers the full weight of their contempt. The frenzy to buy cheap crap from China, the human downgrade of people fighting with each other over items they can probably live without, to me, is an insult. "

" There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's. "

" The Internet, the camera cellphone and the like have not only sped up the world's information uptake, but they have cheapened that which they capture. "

Henry Rollins

World

Internet

" Trayvon Martin did not need to die. "

" I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in. "

" South Sudan is one of the most hard-put places in the world. "

" We city dwellers, we residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, are for the most part urbanized to some extent. We know deadlines, start times and traffic. "

" 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. "

" I have a lot of compact discs. I need them for radio play and convenience. Many bands and artists I am a fan of don't always release their work on vinyl, so I take what they feel like giving me. "

Henry Rollins

Giving

Feel

" In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move. "

" This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky. "

" One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot. "

" I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singing Black Sabbath songs year after year, whether he was performing with Black Sabbath or out on a solo tour. He said it was great. "