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" One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise. "
Henry Rollins
Person
Just
Music
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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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Letters
Back
Me
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
Television
Up
Early
" Florida is a crazy place, and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here. "
Henry Rollins
Florida
Crazy
Place
" Try driving the streets of Los Angeles without seeing a billboard depicting a film with a lead actor holding a gun. It's almost as if guns are harmless props used to bring out the cheekbones and jawline of the screen star. "
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Los Angeles
Seeing
Try
" If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light, If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you. "
Henry Rollins
Sun
World
Walls
" I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down. "
Henry Rollins
Fail
Down
Audience
" 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
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
I Am
Alone
Feel
" To our enemies all over the world who plan America's demise, please take my advice. Give up now. No matter what, you will lose. You will lose it all. "
Henry Rollins
World
America
Advice
" I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things. "
Henry Rollins
Politics
Things
Think
" I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it. "
Henry Rollins
Writer
Working
Very
" 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
" Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions. "
Henry Rollins
Marriage
Service
Perfect
" Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability? "
Henry Rollins
American
Much
Identity
" I have always thought that change you can see and feel is best. "
Henry Rollins
Thought
Change
Best
" Music files and downloading have indeed changed the currency of music to a great degree. "
Henry Rollins
Great
Currency
Degree
" I don't mind bees and think we are all the better for having them around. I like the taste of honey. "
Henry Rollins
Honey
Think
Like
" I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history. "
Henry Rollins
Great
Washington
Musicians
" Some music really does suck! "
Henry Rollins
Does
Music
Suck
" I think it's fantastic when the young enrage their elders. I really do believe that if it's too loud, you are indeed too old, and that if it has been standing for too long, it needs a thorough inspection. "
Henry Rollins
You
Young
Believe
" 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
" No matter how rough things can be at times, many Americans are optimistic and on the move. "
Henry Rollins
Matter
How
Rough
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
Down
People
Science
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
People
Want
Standing
" Technically speaking, there is no music whatsoever on a CD. Lots of information, but no music. "
Henry Rollins
Lots
Music
Speaking
" I never thought about getting any tattoos removed. "
Henry Rollins
Getting
About
Never
" When I think of Mick Jagger still singing that he can't get any satisfaction in over forty years of being in the Rolling Stones, I have to conclude that he's either lying or not all that bright. "
Henry Rollins
Lying
Think
Singing
" I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go. "
Henry Rollins
Learn
Me
More
" With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad. "
Henry Rollins
Any
Technology
Innovation
" I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life. "
Henry Rollins
Life
World
Thought