Band Quotes - Page 30

• 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.

  Henry Rollins

  Rocks, Dinosaurs, States

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• If some band sucks, you're going to have to find out about it for yourself, because I don't have the interest in issuing warnings.

  Henry Rollins

  Warning, Interest, Ifs

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• The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short.

  Henry Rollins

  Song, Rocks, Together

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• Too bad that Paul Ryan confessed to being a fan of Rage Against The Machine. By doing so, he not only begged for a bucketing by many of their fans but actually got one from the band's guitar player, Tom Morello.

  Henry Rollins

  Player, Guitar, Fans

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• I have a lot of compact discs. I need them for radio play and convenience. Many bands and artists I am a fan of don't always release their work on vinyl, so I take what they feel like giving me.

  Henry Rollins

  Artist, Play, Giving

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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.

  Henry Rollins

  Girl, Song, Eye

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• My mother, a very eclectic listener, had the first Doors album and gave it to me when I expressed interest in the band. It was one of the first records I ever had. As the years passed, the babysitters who used to look after me would bring their Doors albums to the apartment, and that's how I got to hear their later work.

  Henry Rollins

  Mother, Doors, Years

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• Youths write me and tell me that their band will go nowhere because of all the bad bands in the world. I tell them there has always been awful music and that no great band ever wasted any time complaining, they just got it done. Their ropey ranting is just a way to get out of the hard work of making music that will do some lasting damage.

  Henry Rollins

  Hard Work, Writing, Complaining

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• 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

  Attention, Littles, Singers

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• Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.

  Henry Rollins

  Texas, Musician, Good Bands

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• The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.

  Henry Rollins

  Distance, Bad Seed, Seeds

  "How We Met". Interview with Nicholas Barber, The Independent, March 23, 1997.

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• There is a lot to say about what Bikini Kill and other 'riot grrrl' bands were able to achieve when they first set out. They were not some momentary, convulsive, creative spasm of independent music. There was a very real, relevant point of view being expressed.

  Henry Rollins

  Real, Independent, Views

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• I think the U.K. is an amazing place and has been extremely good to me. Some of my favorite and most-listened-to bands are from England. I have met many good people there and have been in front of some of the most loyal audiences I have ever encountered.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, People, England

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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.'

  Henry Rollins

  Rocks, Watches, Way

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• Imagine someone so infatuated by a band that they have every different pressing of every album the band made. Most of the time, the only difference in the album is the matrix number or a different 'made in' notation on the back cover or label. This is enough to make some people extremely excited. Actually, much more than excited.

  Henry Rollins

  Differences, Numbers, People

  "The Column! Are You Collector Scum?" by Henry Rollins, www.laweekly.com. January 19, 2012.

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• In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground.

  Henry Rollins

  Summer, Years, Broken

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• Contemporary bands often will do tour-only releases pressed and sold only in Australia. Crikey!

  Henry Rollins

  Australia, Release, Contemporary

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• I was at the first Minor Threat show, and you could tell, 'This band is going to be the king of the town.' It was obvious. They were so good.

  Henry Rollins

  Kings, Firsts, Towns

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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, Rocks, Mind

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• 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

  Believe, Numbers, People

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• The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, 'We were just on tour, and we had people coming to our show saying they had never heard us before they heard us on your show.'

  Henry Rollins

  Writing, Years, People

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• Trying to write music, be in a band and keep it all happening is one of the hardest, morale-destroying, heartbreaking things you will ever try to do - and that's when it's going well.

  Henry Rollins

  Writing, Trying, Heartbreaking

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• For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not have the misery in my heart that the blues required.

  John C. Reilly

  Heart, Optimistic, Play

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• The first time I ever saw Lydia Lunch perform it was a religious experience. Not only is she intelligent and beautiful but she actually understands how "my" brain works. This almost rivals my first concert- Cindy Lauper when I was 12. She was so fascinating to me at the time. She made me want to dye my hair pink and start a band. (SO I naturally did)... All Cure records have had a great effect on me musically also.

  Jessicka

  Beautiful, Religious, Intelligent

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• A little man is running a jewelry store. A man runs in saying, Okay, take my watch, put on a new band, install a new battery, clean the case, install a new crystal, and tune it up. I will be back in a half hour for it. Thanks! and runs out the door. The little jeweler says, C-C-C-Come in?

  Henny Youngman

  Running, Men, Doors

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