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The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.
Henry Rollins
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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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I don't have many friends so the phone doesn't ring and no one's asking me to go out and go dancing with them.
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I live my life through the prism of capitalism and physiological limits and eventualities.
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With writing, there are multiple drafts. On stage, there is one take. I do a lot of preparation for shows, so, for the most part, what you hear me say is pretty much what I wanted to get at.
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Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often.
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I don't want to go with the smooth skin and the calm brow. I hope I end up a blithering idiot cursing the sun - hallucinating, screaming, giving obscene and inane lectures on street corners and public parks.
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One of the nice things about a favorite pop song is that it's an unconditional truce on judgment and musical snobbery. You like the song because you just do, and there need not be any further criticism.
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I've never killed anybody... but I've definitely thought about it.
Henry Rollins
I don't have talent. I have tenacity.
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If American forces leave Afghanistan, the Taliban is going to do what to America? Don't say you're worried about what they will do to the Afghan people. If that was America's concern, America's operational presence there would be much different.
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I can't imagine being sixty years of age and playing music I wrote when I was in my twenties. I would rather sail the sea of consequence to new lands. Laps around the shallow end of the pool, not for me.
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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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I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip.
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Maybe I'm ego-tripping, but I don't find myself a particularly horrible person, so I don't think I need to hold back anything I think or feel.
Henry Rollins
And I laugh at myself when I screw things up, which happens all the time.
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I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.
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There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's.
Henry Rollins
I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain and sadness. There are things that haunt us our entire lives we are unable to let them go. The good times seem almost effervescent and dreamlike in comparison with the times that didn't go so well.
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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.
Henry Rollins
I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.
Henry Rollins
But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.
Henry Rollins
