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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
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Interesting
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" 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. "
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I Am
Doing
Good
" I'm terrified of motorcycles. I've been on one a couple of times. I did not like it. "
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Been
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" 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. "
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Community
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" For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16, and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that. "
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Young
Long
Long Time
" I urge you to read the Occupy Manifesto, written by the New York City General Assembly. It is unavoidably clear. This is not directionless action. If it were, the media would have moved on. "
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City
Media
New
" Music files and downloading have indeed changed the currency of music to a great degree. "
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Great
Currency
Degree
" There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time. "
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People
Time
Mind
" I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are. "
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Lot
Generic
Child
" The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture. "
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Classmates
Fear
" We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head down a very bad, dark trail to where a lot of people aren't going to make it. "
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Down
People
Science
" Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good. "
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Hurts
Truth
Sometimes
" Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches. "
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People
Me
Down
" The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me. "
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Idea
Me
Performer
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
Small
World
You
" I love to go on stage and sing. "
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Stage
I Love
Love
" Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets in the way of it is politicians and apathy. "
Henry Rollins
People
Voting
Apathy
" Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, 'I have two moms - it's cool.' I don't fear that at all. "
Henry Rollins
Saying
Imagine
Fear
" My motto is, 'Never quit.' "
Henry Rollins
My Motto
Never Quit
Quit
" I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation. "
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Boring
Obligation
Think
" I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool. "
Henry Rollins
Honest
Mind
Boss
" After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band. "
Henry Rollins
Left
Flag
Black
" In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song. "
Henry Rollins
Borrowing
Song
Blues
" Seasonal change in Los Angeles is often a very subtle thing. It's not as if we finally stop having to shovel the snow out of our driveways and can put our parkas back in the closet. "
Henry Rollins
Stop
Snow
Los Angeles
" I try to get myself up and moving as early as possible. Optimum is to be on the treadmill while it is still dark outside. "
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Up
Try
Dark
" Nothing moves me more than the history of the United States. "
Henry Rollins
History
Nothing
More
" In the summer of 1991, I was on the first Lollapalooza tour. Nightly, I would watch Jane's Addiction singer Perry Farrell go out in front of a sea of people and within minutes have all of them in the palm of his hand. I have never seen anything like it since. "
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People
Addiction
Watch
" 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
" If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard. "
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Trying
Comedy
Club
" Imagine someone so infatuated by a band that they have every different pressing of every album the band made. Most of the time, the only difference in the album is the matrix number or a different 'made in' notation on the back cover or label. This is enough to make some people extremely excited. Actually, much more than excited. "
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People
Back
Band
" I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories. "
Henry Rollins
Stories
Being
Love