Henry Rollins Quotes - Page 26

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• Music keeps you young. Having music in your life keeps you open to things.

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  Young

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• More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another.

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  Pockets, Journalism, Seems

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• Being in New York is an almost overwhelming experience. While Washington, D.C., is my favorite American city, I regard New York City as the most amazing city in the world. No other comes close. It is an incredible, inexhaustible engine.

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  New York, Cities, World

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• I'm actually on the Twitter like all those crazy young kids are, and if I'm going to do an in-store appearance or I post something on my website, I tweet these followers, a word I don't like so much, and over 50,000 people go, like, 'Okay, I got it.'

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  Crazy, Kids, People

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• If you listen to the way I speak and watch the way I conduct myself - there's nothing about me that's rock n' roll. It's like, 'Hello, I'm in a rock n' roll band'. 'No, you're a narc.'

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  Rocks, Watches, Band

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• For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.

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  Rights, Movement, Jazz

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• When the movie comes out, what anybody thinks of it doesn't really matter to me. I don't go to the wrap party. I don't go to the premiere.

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  Movie, Party, Thinking

  "EXCLUSIVE: Talking TV, Movies and Punk Rock with Henry Rollins". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. May 4, 2006.

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• Trayvon Martin did not need to die.

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  Needs, Trayvon Martin, Trayvon

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• Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity.

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  Morning, Air, August

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• The public library system of the United States is worth preserving.

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  Library, United States, States

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• If I was gay, there’d be no closet. You’d never see the closet I came out of. Why? I would have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve! Because I know, with all certainty in my mind, there’s nothing wrong with being gay and you know it! And there’s nothing wrong with being into chicks if you’re a girl. And there’s nothing wrong with being into all of it…. How awesome would it be to be bisexual? To just walk into a room and go ‘MMMM, ALRIGHT!!!!’

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  Girl, Gay, Bisexual

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• I plan to be a part of Haiti's reconstruction and future.

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  Haiti, Reconstruction, Plans

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• I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran.

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  Iran, People, Interviews

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• I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail.

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  Book, Band, Stuff

  "Henry Rollins: 'I get angry about stuff'". Interview with David E. Williams, www.cnn.com. April 6, 2006.

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• The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing back. He's sticking it to the man as he sees it. I like that. So that is punk.

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  Father, Kids, Men

  "What is Punk?" by Henry Rollins, bigthink.com. 2017.

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• 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?

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  Patriotic, Blood, America

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• I'm terrified of motorcycles. I've been on one a couple of times. I did not like it.

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  Couple, Motorcycle, Terrified

  "One last thing ... Henry Rollins". Interview with Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2010.

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• I didn't want to work at Pizza Hut and I didn't want to join the Army. So I just decided to go out and be awesome.

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  Army, Want, Pizza

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• 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.

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  Song, Years, People

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• Castle Face Records, run by The Oh Sees main man, Johnny Dwyer is always worth checking in with.

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  Running, Men, Castles

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• 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.

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  Kings, Up Early, Television

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• Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.

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  Pride, Trying, Might

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• I was in Pakistan in Islamabad when Bhutto was assassinated, and the next day, you know, there's just plumes of smoke everywhere. I mean, Islamabad is on fire.

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  Mean, Fire, Next Day

  "America, Meet the Rest of the World" by Henry Rollins, bigthink.com. 2017.

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• 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.

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  Lying, Thinking, Years

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• Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.

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  America, Revealing, Consumerism

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