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" As so much music is listened to via MP3 download, many will never experience the joy of analog playback, and for them, I feel sorry. They are missing out. "
Henry Rollins
Music
Experience
Feel
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" I wonder what it's like to be from a state that is spread across a few islands way out in the Pacific Ocean, only added to the United States in 1959. Not only that but to be the birthplace of America's first black president? Pretty cool, I bet. "
Henry Rollins
Cool
Wonder
Ocean
" 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
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" I'm a big fan of the American Tapes label. But that's very hard to keep a grip on that because you blink your eyes and they've released three records, all of which are limited edition, all sold at one show. So you have to follow in drips and drops on eBay, which I do. "
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Eyes
" 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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Band
Will
" I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy. "
Henry Rollins
Good
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You
" I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran. "
Henry Rollins
Interview
Like
People
" Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind. "
Henry Rollins
Mind
She
Opinion
" As far as I have been able to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote and polite to the point of being invisible. It is in the music, literature, film and art that the Japanese really seem to express themselves. "
Henry Rollins
Literature
Understand
Art
" I wonder how Colin Powell sleeps at night. I would like to have a word with him because he lied. He lied. He lied to me. He lied to my face through the camera at the U.N. "
Henry Rollins
Wonder
Him
Camera
" To my ears, jazz sounds better in warm weather and after the sun has gone down. While I will listen to some of my favorite jazz records in cooler weather, it's the warmer nights that really make them come alive. Something about those sounds and the heat of the night really makes it happen for me. "
Henry Rollins
Me
Sun
Night
" America sold VX nerve gas and anthrax to Iraq for years, even after the Halabja gas attack, which killed thousands of Kurds. "
Henry Rollins
Gas
Attack
America
" I always start tours with a great deal of anticipation. "
Henry Rollins
Great
Always
Anticipation
" If you listen to 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is dripping with rage. "
Henry Rollins
Revolution
Will
You
" We spend millions of dollars to remove pain from our lives. It's why so many people get hooked on painkillers. The body becomes addicted to painlessness. That tells you a lot. "
Henry Rollins
Spend
Why
You
" I would like to become a better photographer. I'm working on that. "
Henry Rollins
Working
Photographer
Better
" When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it. "
Henry Rollins
Like
See
You
" When I am in Africa, I realize I don't know much, have not seen much, and there's a lot to be done. "
Henry Rollins
I Am
Seen
Realize
" When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break. "
Henry Rollins
High
You
Relationship
" Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock. "
Henry Rollins
Find
Rock
Punk
" Having an identity is one thing. Being born into an identity is quite a different matter. "
Henry Rollins
Being
Different
Identity
" I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go. "
Henry Rollins
Learn
Me
More
" Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations. "
Henry Rollins
Smart
Good
Choices
" Young, gay and stuck in Arkansas? Sounds like a horror flick. "
Henry Rollins
Gay
Stuck
Sounds
" Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often. "
Henry Rollins
Bell
You
Hard
" The more I learn about Mr. Romney, the less there is to admire. "
Henry Rollins
More
About
Admire
" Of course same sex marriage is constitutional! The right to be yourself, to pursue life, liberty, and property, is protected several ways over several amendments. John Boehner should know this. "
Henry Rollins
Yourself
Marriage
Life
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
Trying
Amazing
Discrimination
" 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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Face
Road
Person
" When people make my country look bad, I can't stand it. "
Henry Rollins
Country
Stand
People
" There are records that, in my opinion, only reach their full potential when the listener is disoriented. "
Henry Rollins
Records
Only
Opinion