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Henry Rollins Quotes - Page 16

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After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band.

After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band.

Black, Flags, Band

And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever.

Hate, Russia, Letters

"Henry Rollins: Post-Punk Pundit". Interview with Gray Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. July 25, 2007.

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.

Gun, Assault Weapons, Body

Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.

Summer, July, August

I've been in Iraq, and it never occurred to me to go, 'Hey, this war is bogus,' to some guy who's 24 hours a day trying not to get shot at or blown up.

War, Iraq, Guy

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

The perpetrators of the actual bad stuff that does real and lasting harm to people, like leakage of industrial chemicals into water systems, seem to get not so much as a second glance; the bloviation from media pundits and think tanks creates false problems that waste time and energy debunking.

Real, Thinking, Media

Between the Dinosaur Jr. albums and his recent solo albums, 'Several Shades of Why' and 'Heavy Blanket,' J Mascis is emerging as one of the last men from all that '80s indie madness, still writing songs that you want to listen to over and over.

Song, Writing, Men

When I'm off the road, and I can really control my diet down to the calorie, I juice seven days a week. Every afternoon, whatever I have at hand, beets, carrots, ginger, whatever. I juice, literally, every single day. And on the road, I try to find fresh juice wherever I can.

Hands, Trying, Juice

I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two.

Song, War, Past

If there was a god, he wouldn't let a guy walk right up and shoot you in the face now would he? That's right, now you get the picture. Truth burns doesn't it?

Guy, Faces, Walks

Henry Rollins (1992). “Black Coffee Blues”

No matter how rough things can be at times, many Americans are optimistic and on the move.

Moving, Optimistic, Matter

When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'

Punk, Knows, Asks

All my big heroes are literary, writers.

Hero, Bigs

"Henry Rollins: Post-Punk Pundit". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. July 25, 2007.

One person's disaster is another person's talking point.

Talking, Disaster, Persons

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.

Rocks, Band, Dinosaurs

Always knowing you're going to die And until then knowing you've got to live.

Knowing, Always Knowing, Dies

Maybe some things are better left broken and scattered Veiled in darkness, secret bitterness and self-doubt I should have known better Than to start something that I couldn't finish That I couldn't care about That I couldn't remember starting in the first place I don't want to know you You went years without me You might as well keep going.

Self, Should Have, Years

I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind.

Meals, Employment, Lions

It's hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes difficult because they keep getting out of line and wasting your time.

People, Trying, Lines

Respect is not a one way street

Way, Streets, One Way

I was very lucky to have had the opportunity to tour with the Beastie Boys and watched almost every set they played on all those dates. Why not? You do your set and then you get to see the Beasties play? Best deal in town.

Boys, Opportunity, Play

I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person.

Topics, Persons, Left

I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway.

Past, Long, Directors

I don't know if you have ever seen the Woody Allen film 'Annie Hall,' but it is, in a way, to Los Angeles and 'Hollywood' what 'This Is Spinal Tap' is to many musicians.

Spinal Tap, Annie Hall, Way

I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.

Past, Thinking, Important

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