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" The perpetrators of the actual bad stuff that does real and lasting harm to people, like leakage of industrial chemicals into water systems, seem to get not so much as a second glance; the bloviation from media pundits and think tanks creates false problems that waste time and energy debunking. "

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" As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it. "

Henry Rollins

Appreciation

Teen

Too Much

" The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me. "

Henry Rollins

Idea

Performer

" I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time. "

" If an American company has a drop of patriotic blood coursing through its system, then surely it would set up in America and employ Americans, right? "

" Anything in this culture that stands still long enough eventually becomes okay if a person can derive an income from it. Eventually, pay-per-view public execution will happen, and it will be half-time entertainment. "

" Never once have I thought that Social Security would be something that would ever be available to me. "

" Of course same sex marriage is constitutional! The right to be yourself, to pursue life, liberty, and property, is protected several ways over several amendments. John Boehner should know this. "

" When people make my country look bad, I can't stand it. "

" Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting each other, digging new types of music, new foods, new ideas. You want to stop having so many wars? This could be a step in the right direction. "

" It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements. "

" 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. "

" I don't know how much you follow current events. For some, there's not enough time to keep up on what's happening; for others, the news is too depressing, and peering too deeply fills one with boiling frustration all too quickly. "

" Shirley Sherrod seems like a good and dedicated person. "

Henry Rollins

Dedicated

Good

" That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at anyone is laughable. "

" 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. "

" Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact. "

" Dinosaur Jr. in their live capacity are a band that put me in a state of such overwhelming rock that it often takes quite a while to come down. "

" Unsurprisingly, Nelson Mandela had and still has many detractors. "

" I think a lot of Americans have never been all that hungry. They've never had war on their shore, and they've never suffered the way other cultures have suffered. I'm not saying we should go suffer. Not at all. I'm saying we should be more aware of how other cultures exist. "

" The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless. "

" I get letters from young people telling me that they're broke and download my albums for free. They ask me what I think about that. I now have a standard line. I tell them, 'I would rather be heard than paid.' "

Henry Rollins

People

Free

" I'm most comfortable on stage. "

" 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

Leave

" 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. "

" I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone. "

" Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people - brutal. "

" 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. "

" Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock. "

" Chris Christie is New Jersey's concern, not America's. "

" I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation. "