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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.

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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Music keeps you young. Having music in your life keeps you open to things.
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I'm actually on the Twitter like all those crazy young kids are, and if I'm going to do an in-store appearance or I post something on my website, I tweet these followers, a word I don't like so much, and over 50,000 people go, like, 'Okay, I got it.'
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I think Perry Ferrell put independent music on a very good path with Lollapalooza.
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If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations.
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I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.
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Florida is a crazy place, and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here.
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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.
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The ones who don't do anything are always the ones who try to pull you down.
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What if Americans were all judged by the actions of the Bush administration and people did not know the truth? That America is full of people who are, at present, poorly represented and poorly catered to by the media.
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The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid in Compton if he's a criminal instead of a scholar. It's business.
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Citizens United didn't work. Hey, Koch brothers, Karl Rove, Shellgame Adelson: Democracy trumps money sometimes.
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I don't really write for fun it's not an enjoyable experience. For me, art, or whatever the hell it is I do, has always been a refuge from that which makes me want to tear my lungs out. That's why I play like I play I'm not into entertainment.
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You can still function as a living ruin.
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A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere.
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For the last 30-plus years, I have been doing one long, uninterrupted improv.
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It's difficult for me to be around anyone for longer than an hour. Love, death, elation, sorrow, I just don't care all that much about any of it. I am at this point, more of an observer/journalist.
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I'm most comfortable on stage.
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