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You can kiss my Kiss-loving ass because Kiss was never a critic's band. It was a people's band.

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Tom Morello
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: May 30
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Thomas Baptist Morello
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What draws people to the instrument is the love for guitar players that play a certain way. I mean, even though it wasn't intentional, it was hard to avoid copying Eddie Van Halen. He was basically the *bleep* back then.
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Paul Ryan's love for Rage Against The Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades
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If aliens came down and challenged us to a Battle of the Bands to decide the fate of Planet Earth, I would feel very confident putting early Van Halen forward as our champion.
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I didn't grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago.
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I literally integrated the small town of Libertyville, Illinois. I was the first person of color to reside within its borders.
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I think you might be considered a terrorist for asking the question! It can be so broadly defined now. And the thing is, you’re not privy to those decisions. Anyone who expresses any opinion can be considered a terrorist.
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I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.
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In a world of bands called Limp Bizkit and Hoobastank, Electric Sheep rolls off the tongue like a Shakespearean love sonnet. Leave me alone.
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Amazingly talented singer who sang like an angry angel
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Bashing the elite is what I'm all about in my music because they absolutely don't deserve the privileged position that they're in, and we're seeing this around the globe right now.
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For the millennium [New Year's Eve], you really have a choice to make. You either have to be naked with your head on fire and a shotgun in Bali or else you have to spend time with friends or family around the fireplace. And I'm choosing option B
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A musicians or artists responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.
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