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" Castle Face Records, run by The Oh Sees main man, Johnny Dwyer is always worth checking in with. "
Henry Rollins
Always
Man
Run
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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
" It's why real men just go out in the woods and howl. I must do it and get paid. "
Henry Rollins
Go
Just
Men
" I would hate to think that some people have found themselves in a musical cul-de-sac and have ceased to explore new music, or at least music that is new to them, because they are so glued to the past. "
Henry Rollins
People
Hate
Past
" I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine. "
Henry Rollins
Own
Like
Feeling
" I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone. "
Henry Rollins
Stone
Inspirational
Parents
" 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
Music
Talk
Want
" My motto is, 'Never quit.' "
Henry Rollins
My Motto
Never Quit
Quit
" America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave. "
Henry Rollins
Do The Right Thing
Right
America
" Sarah Palin embarrasses herself almost immediately upon opening her mouth to speak or upon moving her fingers to send messages to her dull flock. "
Henry Rollins
Opening
Moving
Her
" Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come. "
Henry Rollins
Change
Time
Early
" Those who seek to profit by division don't stand a chance. "
Henry Rollins
Division
Seek
Stand
" The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be tied to songs to such a degree that it's almost unbearable to listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly. "
Henry Rollins
Romantic
Memories
Music
" I am on until I am dead, like a light bulb. "
Henry Rollins
Light Bulb
Am
Dead
" Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians. "
Henry Rollins
Bands
Musicians
Good
" My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven. "
Henry Rollins
Needs
Understanding
Proven
" Before any American points a finger at President Putin and calls him nasty names, they should recognize that a lot of Americans agree with Putin on his stance against homosexual and transgender people. "
Henry Rollins
American
Transgender
Him
" I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself. "
Henry Rollins
Find
Endure
Lot
" Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact. "
Henry Rollins
Impact
Ideas
Dictionary
" I'm a good authoritarian figure; I don't know why. 'Can you be a cop?' Sure. 'Can you be a Marine?' Absolutely. Well, at least in a movie. "
Henry Rollins
Good
Why
Well
" Do you know why Albert Camus was so prolific? He wrote to keep from screaming. "
Henry Rollins
Keep
You
Why
" 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
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
Rage
Band
Doing
" I have had a number of less-than-enviable moments in my life when dealing with other people. I won't attempt to blunt that by saying I am not the only one. "
Henry Rollins
Life
I Am
Saying
" I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind. "
Henry Rollins
I Am Happy
Meal
Leave
" If you listen to the way I speak and watch the way I conduct myself - there's nothing about me that's rock n' roll. It's like, 'Hello, I'm in a rock n' roll band'. 'No, you're a narc.' "
Henry Rollins
Rock
Myself
Speak
" Marriage equality is a term so ridiculous on its face that when you hear it mentioned, you would think you were in Riyadh. Years from now, perhaps we can lose the equality part, the same-sex part and call it what it is - marriage. "
Henry Rollins
You
Equality
Think
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
Mother
Me
Band
" August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor. "
Henry Rollins
Last
Messenger
Summer
" This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles. "
Henry Rollins
Hair
Rock
Own
" I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright. "
Henry Rollins
Minute
Stage Fright
Remember