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" I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading 'Play It As It Lays,' 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' and 'The White Album.' "
Henry Rollins
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" I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history. "
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" 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. "
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" To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events. "
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" When people make my country look bad, I can't stand it. "
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" Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing it, and the great effort of those who created and recorded the work is damaged. "
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" Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business. "
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" The Wacken festival started more than 20 years ago with just a few hundred people in attendance. Tickets now sell out before the lineup is announced. "
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" I'm most comfortable on stage. "
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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. "
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" I was very lucky to have had the opportunity to tour with the Beastie Boys and watched almost every set they played on all those dates. Why not? You do your set and then you get to see the Beasties play? Best deal in town. "
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" Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness. "
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" You need a little bit of insanity to do great things. "
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Great Things
Great
" I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind. "
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" With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal. "
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" More guns equaling more safety is a slippery slope, and what makes it so is human blood. "
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Human
" There is no way you are going to be forgiven for blowing up a village and killing a bunch of people. "
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Village
Up
People
" I remember when Martin Luther King was assassinated. I was up early watching television and watched the announcement. I didn't understand what the word 'assassinated' meant. "
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Television
Up
Early
" August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor. "
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Summer
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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You
Relationship
" The world's a better place since I chose music. "
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Music
Place
" My first visit to West Berlin was in February 1983. The drive through East Berlin, the fact that West Berlin was surrounded by a wall that was more than 100 miles long - the absurdity and intensity of it really knocked me out. "
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More
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" I mean Black Flag happened. I was lucky. I don't think I could have put together something with one percent of that oomph on my own. "
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Black
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" Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact. "
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" One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You can find it all over the world happening in basements, small venues and even some festivals. Often blown off or belittled by critics, the form for the most part goes unheard and unnoticed. "
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Small
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You
" 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. "
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Time
Frustration
Enough
" Having an identity is one thing. Being born into an identity is quite a different matter. "
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Different
Identity
" When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or how much you're being paid - it's not worth it. "
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" Harmony is boring. "
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