Henry Rollins quotes - page 19

It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. (Henry Rollins)
I have found a way to beat myself I win by losing, something like that I'm told that I'm stupid So ok, I'll be stupid If I can't register the pain Then it's not there I'm not so stupid after all I'll show them. View quote
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I make music all the time that no-one ever hears. Y' know, I sing in the shower, I hit on things. Music is life - life is music. Of all people, Nietzsche said 'Life without music is an error'. And so I'll be making music one way or another. Oh believe me, I make music.. I've made whole records that no-one heard. Oh they came out, no-one bought them! We used to do whole secret tours, we used to stand outside like 'We're playing tonight! View quote
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I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading 'Play It As It Lays,' 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' and 'The White Album.' View quote
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The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be tied to songs to such a degree that it's almost unbearable to listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly. View quote
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To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events. View quote
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I don't hate the government. I don't think the Second Amendment is being infringed upon. View quote
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Enough Americans saw fit to give president Obama a second term. I don't think there will be many people keeping their Romney/Ryan bumper stickers on their cars. View quote
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A lot of Americans don't have a passport, never will have a passport. Not only will they not travel, they don't want to travel. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Henry Rollins)
Citizens United didn't work. Hey, Koch brothers, Karl Rove, Shellgame Adelson: Democracy trumps money sometimes. View quote
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I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of. View quote
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Every politician, every president gets votes by getting people that don't like him to like him. That's why politicians are slippery: because they talk out of both sides of their mouth. View quote
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I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster. View quote
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To anger female voters in America is to tread on the tiger's tail. Women turn out in huge numbers, and they are well aware of how their bodies work and what they need. View quote
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I wonder if it is Australia's great distance from more populated land masses that allows its inhabitants to be left to their own devices, to be incredibly creative and, at times, to be wonderfully weird. View quote
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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. View quote
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When I am in Africa, I realize I don't know much, have not seen much, and there's a lot to be done. View quote
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When you're kept out of the adult world, it's a blessing in disguise. View quote
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What I don't want to do is go out there and not be able to mean it, you know? (Henry Rollins)
I still have dreams about CBGB's. I still miss the place. View quote
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Someone like Ashlee Simpson, she lip-synchs on 'Saturday Night Live,' gets totally called out la Milli Vanilli, and no one really cares that much. It doesn't make me hate Ashlee; she's just taking instructions. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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