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This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career.

Al Jourgensen

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Al Jourgensen
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 9
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Alain David Jourgensen
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I'm for Barack Obama. We gotta have the Muslim cell in there just to piss Rush Limbaugh and the right wing off.
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There are people all over the world starving and here we are trying to get pot delivered for free we felt kind of guilty.
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I pissed away over ten million dollars On dope and crack I passed away deader than a door knob But now I'm back
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Without intermediate artists, music is what American Idol decides is great or made by the very poor, because Sharon Osbourne's made everything free. No, we have to support our local artists. It's just that simple. Otherwise, we will have no art.
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In the 70s, what thrash was there? Punk came on, and that was cool. But there was no thrash. There were dinosaur big bands, and that was great. Those were my influences.
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It's all downloading. As a matter of fact, within five years, there will be no CDs.
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I got my influences from 70s bands - Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, blah blah blah. When I was growing up, we had all these crazy bands on the Top 40. Today, if Pink Floyd released Money, it wouldn't even get played.
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I'm male gigolo. Professionally? I don't think I've ever done anything professionally.
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Rock n Roll Animal, the live album, is one of the greatest live albums out there. It was a huge influence on me.
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Jello's Biafra kind of like my weird, retarded uncle. He's part of the family.
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It certainly is gravy every day above ground right now, after kicking that heroin habit. I've been given a second chance in life, and I don't want to let a minute go by without enjoying it.
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Ministry is just ZZ Top with technology.
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The more you think, the more you ruin things. Art has to come viscerally otherwise, forget it.
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Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded.
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I'm still a recluse. I still hate everyone. I'm still a misanthrope.
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Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.
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I love doing film soundtracks and working with directors on how they want the scene to be portrayed on audio as opposed to visual. I like the collaborative effort of working with people.
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Rock n roll is for the young idiots, not an old fart like me.
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