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" What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment of the New York music experience. "
Henry Rollins
Music
Royal
Experience
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" If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations. "
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" Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people - brutal. "
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" For me, Memphis has always been a city that holds a great deal of meaning and also leads me to a lot of thinking. Besides Sun Studio, which helped put rock n' roll on the map all over the world, the legendary Stax Studio also called Memphis home. "
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" I'm not artistic nor am I all that creative. "
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" Maybe I'm just a psycho, and the stage is a better place to go than either the loony bin or somewhere else. "
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" We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost. "
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" I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body - causing me injury or death - to be an assault weapon. "
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" A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere. "
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" I have not the smarts or patience for political office. "
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" 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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" More than 30 years ago, in Washington, D.C., I secured a copy of a single by a Los Angeles band called The Bags. The two-song 7-inch, released on Dangerhouse, had a girl on the cover who looked right at you with huge eyes. The songs, 'Survive' and 'Babylonian Gorgon,' were great and made many of my mix tapes. "
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" I would hate to think that some people have found themselves in a musical cul-de-sac and have ceased to explore new music, or at least music that is new to them, because they are so glued to the past. "
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Hate
Past
" Football is at least as 'gay' as rugby, Greco-Roman wrestling and the film '300.' "
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Gay
Rugby
" I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are. "
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Lot
Generic
Child
" When I see the hatred exacted at Mr. Obama - you know, he lowered your taxes, killed your number one bad guy and got your guys out of Iraq - I don't understand why he seems to inflame people so much. You know, unless, unless there's a race problem. "
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Race
People
" George Zimmerman is a foot soldier in a rapidly privatizing country. He is a new centurion of 21st-century America. Law enforcement is tied down by the strictures of, well, the law. There is only 'so much they can do' to take care of the 'problem.' "
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Take Care
Problem
" My first visit to West Berlin was in February 1983. The drive through East Berlin, the fact that West Berlin was surrounded by a wall that was more than 100 miles long - the absurdity and intensity of it really knocked me out. "
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Me
More
Absurdity
" It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point. "
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Trying
Amazing
Discrimination
" I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back. "
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Good
Chicago
" I know that collector types can be a pain in the neck and seem perpetually frozen in time - or at least in their parents' basement - but someone has to look out for the past, lest it slip away forever. "
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Know
Look
" As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me. "
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Touch
" 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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Media
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" I mean Black Flag happened. I was lucky. I don't think I could have put together something with one percent of that oomph on my own. "
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" I never thought about getting any tattoos removed. "
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About
Never
" I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent. "
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" Now, if someone wants to spit on me, I just roll up the window of my BMW 540i. "
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" In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move. "
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Spring
" 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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Seeing
Try
" When I am in Africa, I always have the feeling that it's where everything started. When I am in New York, I know it is where everything ended up. "
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