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" If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations. "
Henry Rollins
Work
Because
Than
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" In Israel, there's a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you've got to deal with the truth. Things happen real fast. Your day goes from cool to catastrophic in one second. Israelis know that the cafe you're in could blow up, or the shopping mall, and they rock that. "
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" My laptop seems to know where I am, even if I don't. My cellphone asks me if I want directions to anywhere from the spot I am standing in. I buy a record online and Amazon.com sends me letters, telling me that people who bought what I bought also bought these other records. "
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Want
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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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Started
People
" If some band sucks, you're going to have to find out about it for yourself, because I don't have the interest in issuing warnings. "
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You
Yourself
Out
" If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and never, ever seek cure outside of more music. It really is the best drug available. "
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Doctor
Best
More
" So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life. "
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Home
Weird
Life
" Life is weird, great and dangerous. "
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Weird
Life
Great
" 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
" Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward. "
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Revolution
Place
Start
" I have always thought that change you can see and feel is best. "
Henry Rollins
Thought
Change
Best
" Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound. "
Henry Rollins
Sound
Effect
World
" In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground. "
Henry Rollins
Late
Broken
Group
" 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
" I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it. "
Henry Rollins
I Am
Doing
Good
" Castle Face Records, run by The Oh Sees main man, Johnny Dwyer is always worth checking in with. "
Henry Rollins
Always
Man
Run
" It's easy for me to play bad guys because it's a very linear acting. Bad guys aren't empathetic. Being a bad guy is great because you're not friendly and you don't have to do much with your face. "
Henry Rollins
Great
Face
You
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
Gun
Want
Moment
" We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP. "
Henry Rollins
Pain
GDP
Art
" I don't know if you have ever seen the Woody Allen film 'Annie Hall,' but it is, in a way, to Los Angeles and 'Hollywood' what 'This Is Spinal Tap' is to many musicians. "
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Way
You
Musicians
" Kids need parents who love and support them unconditionally, full stop. "
Henry Rollins
Parents
Kids
Stop
" Technically speaking, there is no music whatsoever on a CD. Lots of information, but no music. "
Henry Rollins
Lots
Music
Speaking
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
Worth It
Worth
Matter
" I think it is incumbent on anyone who can to lift human dignity to the highest possible levels, maintaining one's own and helping to raise that of others. "
Henry Rollins
Think
Lift
Own
" 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
" Young, gay and stuck in Arkansas? Sounds like a horror flick. "
Henry Rollins
Gay
Stuck
Sounds
" It's why real men just go out in the woods and howl. I must do it and get paid. "
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Go
Just
Men
" Every single record I have is a fossil. "
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Single
Record
Every
" If you listen to 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is dripping with rage. "
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Revolution
Will
You
" America is off-the-hook gay. I will not go all Ann Coulter on you and say, 'Our gays are better than their gays,' but as far as countries go, we are in-your-face gay. "
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You
America
Better
" 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