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" No one should die when they're 50. "
Henry Rollins
Die
Should
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" I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life. "
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" When a band becomes as truly iconic as the Velvet Underground, there will often be a box set released, overburdened with mediocre material that dilutes what was fine left on its own. "
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" What I don't want to do is go out there and not be able to mean it, you know? "
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" I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us. "
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" If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done. "
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" I don't cuss in songs. It's too easy. "
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" I was happy to find out that when on tour, Dolly Parton doesn't use hotels but stays on her bus every night, to the point of having her buses shipped from Austria to Australia so she can tour the way she sees fit. I used one of her buses once - an honor. "
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" I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran. "
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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. "
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" I think more tolerance, more people having more access to a chance to be literate, and a chance to stay healthy makes for a more peaceful planet. "
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" There is not one single police officer in America that I am not afraid of and not one that I would trust to tell the truth or obey the laws they are sworn to uphold. I do not believe they protect me in any way. "
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" It's why real men just go out in the woods and howl. I must do it and get paid. "
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" Songs sung under duress are often very powerful. "
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" I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work. "
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Time
" Every politician, every president gets votes by getting people that don't like him to like him. That's why politicians are slippery: because they talk out of both sides of their mouth. "
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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. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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
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" Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own. "
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" I think the U.K. is an amazing place and has been extremely good to me. Some of my favorite and most-listened-to bands are from England. I have met many good people there and have been in front of some of the most loyal audiences I have ever encountered. "
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" When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.' "
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" I'm actually on the Twitter like all those crazy young kids are, and if I'm going to do an in-store appearance or I post something on my website, I tweet these followers, a word I don't like so much, and over 50,000 people go, like, 'Okay, I got it.' "
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" Adolescence is a plague on the senses. "
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" I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person. "
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" I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy. "
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" And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever. "
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