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" With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book. "
Henry Rollins
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Naked
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" I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience. "
Henry Rollins
Fool
Brain
Me
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
Know
Feeling
Africa
" I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singing Black Sabbath songs year after year, whether he was performing with Black Sabbath or out on a solo tour. He said it was great. "
Henry Rollins
World
Great
Cool
" I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine. "
Henry Rollins
Own
Like
Feeling
" Motivation has always been a fascinating factor when considering a touring artist, especially when the years stack up. What keeps one out there year after year? "
Henry Rollins
Artist
Year
Years
" 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
" Young, gay and stuck in Arkansas? Sounds like a horror flick. "
Henry Rollins
Gay
Stuck
Sounds
" Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing it, and the great effort of those who created and recorded the work is damaged. "
Henry Rollins
Lost
Song
Joy
" Having an identity is one thing. Being born into an identity is quite a different matter. "
Henry Rollins
Being
Different
Identity
" At times, I feel America is something that I can actually put my arms around, more than a land mass and a Constitution, something far more containable and understandable. I don't exactly know what it is, but at these times I feel completely woven into it. "
Henry Rollins
America
Feel
Constitution
" When you're going into an employment environment that looks pretty scary, it is easy to lose your moral compass, your decency, your sense of civility and your sense of community. "
Henry Rollins
Environment
Community
Moral
" 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
" I have not the smarts or patience for political office. "
Henry Rollins
Patience
Smarts
Office
" I don't have a crystal ball, but I'm willing to bet one of my arms right now that as long as there's electricity, Ramones music is going to be relevant. "
Henry Rollins
Music
Long
Electricity
" I think, to a great degree, we humans still divide ourselves into two species, even though we are monotypic. There are males and females. We see them as different and not equal. "
Henry Rollins
See
Think
Equal
" In Israel, there's a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you've got to deal with the truth. Things happen real fast. Your day goes from cool to catastrophic in one second. Israelis know that the cafe you're in could blow up, or the shopping mall, and they rock that. "
Henry Rollins
Cool
Shopping
Truth
" The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid in Compton if he's a criminal instead of a scholar. It's business. "
Henry Rollins
Dollar
Kid
More
" 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
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
Problem
Race
People
" I have always thought that change you can see and feel is best. "
Henry Rollins
Thought
Change
Best
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
Think
Chance
Healthy
" Contemporary bands often will do tour-only releases pressed and sold only in Australia. Crikey! "
Henry Rollins
Bands
Australia
Will
" The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible. "
Henry Rollins
Bad
Distance
Travel
" 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
" The Wacken festival started more than 20 years ago with just a few hundred people in attendance. Tickets now sell out before the lineup is announced. "
Henry Rollins
Attendance
Started
People
" August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina. "
Henry Rollins
Endurance
Los Angeles
Tests
" While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline. "
Henry Rollins
Believe
Back
Wisdom
" As the middle class is predated upon with an ever greater malicious intensity, their children stand to lose more and harder than their parents ever did. "
Henry Rollins
Children
Parents
Lose
" People will remember that the Tea Party was co-opted and funded by billion-dollar corporations, and that it was supported by Fox News and other outlets with the same vigor with which they attempt to denigrate the Occupy protesters. "
Henry Rollins
People
Remember
Tea
" August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor. "
Henry Rollins
Last
Messenger
Summer