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Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins
American Musician
Born: Feb 13, 1961
Me Music People Think Time You
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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
Feeling Everything New Know Always Am Up Ended York New York Africa Where Started
What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment of the New York music experience. Henry Rollins
Music Me Experience Embodiment Total Charlie Charlie Parker Recordings Parker New Like Does Sound Label York New York Roost Royal
Life is weird, great and dangerous. Henry Rollins
Life Great Dangerous Weird
I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool. Henry Rollins
Mind Met Think I Think Some Seem Guy Boss Guys Records He Couple His Them Really Cool Honest
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. Henry Rollins
People Car Will Think Enough President President Obama Saw Obama Give Term Fit Bumper American Many Keeping Second Second Term
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
Me People Communicate Political Lost Band Convictions Believe Higher Higher Level Leads Practical However Than Front Being Confirmed Then Show Now Now And Then Among Level Humans Need Numbers
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
Music Me You Fool Feeling Every Once Fraud Onstage Had Audience Go Brain Left Get Stop Wanna Cannot Flattened Away Playing Every Night Night Need
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
Year Considering Out Factor Touring Always Motivation Been Years Up Artist Stack After Fascinating Keeps
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
Me Band Overwhelming Down Live State Dinosaur Put Takes Come Rock Quite Often Quite A While While Capacity
I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone. Henry Rollins
Alone Own My Own Left Things Need
And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever. Henry Rollins
Love Me Hate Back Telling I Love Russia Mail Misspelled Go Get Wherever Letters
Being unique is never easy, and often, by the time culture catches up with you, there are only a few people who notice. Henry Rollins
Time You Culture People Few Easy Only Never Up Few People Often Being Notice Who Being Unique Unique By The Time
Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions. Henry Rollins
Service Music Great Marriage Jazz Great American Postal Postal Service Perfect Davis Institutions American Gets Stamp Jazz Music Miles Miles Davis Two
The only thing about sanctions is that, like a lot of drone strikes, there are countless unintended victims. Cutting off aid to Uganda only increases the pain there. Henry Rollins
Pain Aid Increases Strikes About Only Countless Like Uganda Lot Off The Only Thing Victims Sanctions Cutting Unintended Thing
George Zimmerman is a foot soldier in a rapidly privatizing country. He is a new centurion of 21st-century America. Law enforcement is tied down by the strictures of, well, the law. There is only 'so much they can do' to take care of the 'problem.' Henry Rollins
Problem Law Care Country Down Soldier Rapidly Law Enforcement Only Take Foot Take Care He New Well Tied George Privatizing America Much Enforcement
Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre for its intensity, extremism and underlying irony: You have to be alive to play it and listen to it. Henry Rollins
Death You Black Face Hair White Enjoy Extremism Alive Point Genre Make Underlying Metal Lot Irony Intensity Listen Quite Dye Paint Uses Play
As performers grow older, I reckon there are two ways they can go. They can either be up there, playing more deeply from their guts than ever, or they can be phoning it in so crassly that it leaves a lump in your throat as you leave the venue at the end of the show. Henry Rollins
You Older Reckon Ways Guts More Throat Performers Venue Leave Leaves Go End Up Than Either Your Show Grow Ever Lump Deeply Playing Two
I never thought I was right for TV or that TV was right for me. Henry Rollins
Me Thought TV Never Right
There is no place in the world like Australia. Not even its beautiful neighbor New Zealand. Henry Rollins
Beautiful World Neighbor New Like Australia New Zealand Place Even Zealand
Contemporary bands often will do tour-only releases pressed and sold only in Australia. Crikey! Henry Rollins
Will Sold Release Pressed Only Contemporary Australia Bands Often
I have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll. Henry Rollins
Champion Maintained Rock Always Roll Heavyweight Heavyweight Champion Pop Iggy
I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in. Henry Rollins
Good School Young Fit Very Person Repressed Young Person
I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back. Henry Rollins
Good Smart Back Cheerful Audience Always Lot Chicago Found Violent
Music to me is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does. Henry Rollins
Music Good Me Achievement Possible Look Because Greatest Does Mankind
Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind. Henry Rollins
Great Mind Active About Great Person She Opinion Always Go Very Michele Person Anything Interesting
America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice. Henry Rollins
Sacrifice Country Born Glory Selfless Blood America Patriotic Acts
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