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" This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles. "
Henry Rollins
Hair
Rock
Own
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" 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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Dark
" 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
" 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
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Want
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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. "
Henry Rollins
Enjoy
Death
Black
" I'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person. "
Henry Rollins
Justice
Always
Think
" I don't need to have my convictions confirmed by a show of numbers. However, being among people in front of a band leads me to believe that all is not lost, that humans, now and then, can communicate on a higher level than the political and the practical. "
Henry Rollins
People
Political
Me
" For me, returning to Los Angeles annihilates the memories of where I have just been with an astonishing speed. "
Henry Rollins
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Memories
Just
" Florida is a crazy place, and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here. "
Henry Rollins
Florida
Crazy
Place
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
People
Time
Mind
" 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? "
Henry Rollins
Right
America
American
" 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
" To hate is to show you still care, who needs that, focus on what's really important. "
Henry Rollins
You
Hate
Focus
" I'm a good authoritarian figure; I don't know why. 'Can you be a cop?' Sure. 'Can you be a Marine?' Absolutely. Well, at least in a movie. "
Henry Rollins
Good
Why
Well
" My motto is, 'Never quit.' "
Henry Rollins
My Motto
Never Quit
Quit
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
Enough
Okay
Long
" To me, getting muscular was the first thing I ever achieved by working at it, and it was a game changer for me, because it was the first time I ever had confidence. "
Henry Rollins
Confidence
Time
Me
" I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it. "
Henry Rollins
Making Money
Money
Time
" Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience's attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say. "
Henry Rollins
Time
Say
Attention
" Nothing moves me more than the history of the United States. "
Henry Rollins
History
Nothing
More
" I wonder what it's like to be from a state that is spread across a few islands way out in the Pacific Ocean, only added to the United States in 1959. Not only that but to be the birthplace of America's first black president? Pretty cool, I bet. "
Henry Rollins
Cool
Wonder
Ocean
" I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave. "
Henry Rollins
Always
Leave
Get
" To this day, my haircut is the number two clippers, which I apply to myself every month. "
Henry Rollins
Haircut
Day
Two
" 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 thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life. "
Henry Rollins
Life
World
Thought
" If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America. "
Henry Rollins
You
Pay
Products
" The GOP grows more and more unpopular with female voters seemingly every time one of its leaders gets in front of a microphone. Misogynist is as misogynist does. The GOP and its bloviating pundits don't like women and they are unable to hide it, nor do they seem to make much attempt to do so. "
Henry Rollins
Time
Like
More
" I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore. "
Henry Rollins
I Am
People
Day
" Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians. "
Henry Rollins
Play Music
Play
Musicians
" One of the nice things about a favorite pop song is that it's an unconditional truce on judgment and musical snobbery. You like the song because you just do, and there need not be any further criticism. "
Henry Rollins
You
Criticism
Nice
" Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium. "
Henry Rollins
Artist
Giving
Yourself