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" I'd like to talk to Sean Hannity in a controlled environment and say, 'O.K., you can't interrupt and jump up and down like a professional wrestler.' "
Henry Rollins
Professional
Jump
Environment
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" If you are a musician who has released albums, it would perhaps be morbidly interesting to know how much you would be owed if everyone who now has your music had actually bought your record. "
Henry Rollins
Your
Know
Interesting
" Between the Dinosaur Jr. albums and his recent solo albums, 'Several Shades of Why' and 'Heavy Blanket,' J Mascis is emerging as one of the last men from all that '80s indie madness, still writing songs that you want to listen to over and over. "
Henry Rollins
Writing
You
Men
" Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on. "
Henry Rollins
Amazing
Musicians
Hair
" Spring and fall, those are very inspiring times of the year for me. "
Henry Rollins
Year
Those
Spring
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
Shot
Alone
Room
" With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book. "
Henry Rollins
Up
Book
Naked
" We humans are hard to deal with. We are a loud, complex and demanding bunch. Often, we are best dealt with from a safe distance and for only brief periods of time. This could be why a lot of marriages fail. "
Henry Rollins
Distance
Safe
Why
" 'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit. "
Henry Rollins
Seems
Come
Time
" My father did not rock. He just earned and hated. Don't end up like this man. "
Henry Rollins
Man
End
Father
" When you're kept out of the adult world, it's a blessing in disguise. "
Henry Rollins
Out
You
Disguise
" One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise. "
Henry Rollins
Person
Just
Music
" If the death of Osama Bin Laden brings any peace to those who lost loved ones on that awful day in September 2001, that is a great thing. It is more likely, however, just a painful reminder of what was lost. "
Henry Rollins
Great
Lost
Loved
" I love to go on stage and sing. "
Henry Rollins
Stage
I Love
Love
" Mr. Christ, I read you as an infinitely patient entity who, as they say, often works in mysterious ways, a rebel unafraid to take the tougher, less traveled paths. Seems to me you're playing the long game. Is that why more states are coming out in favor of marriage equality? Is that why the Affordable Care Act is now with us? "
Henry Rollins
Equality
Marriage
Care
" 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
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
Grow
More
Leave
" The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless. "
Henry Rollins
Civil Rights
President
Law
" 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
" Seven-11 is the pulse-beat of America. I think that Bruce Springsteen should do a song about a 7-11 in Asbury Park, New Jersey, but write it in such a way that American's youth can identify and slurp along with the Boss. Hail the Boss! Hail 7-11! "
Henry Rollins
Song
Boss
America
" When people make my country look bad, I can't stand it. "
Henry Rollins
Country
Stand
People
" Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock. "
Henry Rollins
Rock
Everything
Me
" In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon. "
Henry Rollins
College
Future
World
" I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two. "
Henry Rollins
People
War
Song
" 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
" 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
" You might as well enjoy the day - you never know when and how painfully it could all end. "
Henry Rollins
Day
You
Never
" The truth is an anti-war statement in itself. "
Henry Rollins
Truth Is
Anti-War
Statement
" Having an identity is one thing. Being born into an identity is quite a different matter. "
Henry Rollins
Being
Different
Identity
" I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless. "
Henry Rollins
Try
Well
Informed
" A lot of Americans don't have a passport, never will have a passport. Not only will they not travel, they don't want to travel. "
Henry Rollins
Will
Lot
Never