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Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, ‘We’re done.’ After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, ‘Now I’m going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.’ Rather than play it safe, he went on. (Henry Rollins Quotes)
To combat the confusion and depression that assault me when I come off the road in the middle of a tour, I seek the most oblivionated music possible. When it’s the ‘way out there’ that I seek, I go right to my stash of amazing music from Japan. (Henry Rollins Quotes)
If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America. (Henry Rollins Quotes)
If an American company has a drop of patriotic blood coursing through its system, then surely it would set up in America and employ Americans, right? (Henry Rollins Quotes)
If people are being upstanding citizens of the Republic, then you have to widen the net to incarcerate them. This explains why America’s prisons are full of nonviolent offenders - a perfect example of American exceptionalism. (Henry Rollins Quotes)
I’m not trying to say I’m a big tough guy, I’m a typical American waist deep in this violent culture. (Henry Rollins Quotes)
I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist. (Henry Rollins Quotes)
My first introduction to African music was by my mother, who bought the ‘Pata Pata’ album by the great Miriam Makeba when it came out. Now that is an album. What a voice. (Henry Rollins Quotes)
Fish is the only kind of respirating thing that I consume. Everything else I don’t want any part of. (Henry Rollins Quotes)
I don’t know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two. (Henry Rollins Quotes)
What I’ve found is that a lot of soldiers are surprisingly apolitical. Their reality is, Today I’m going to leave the gate for twelve hours, and I’m going to make it back to the dining facility by sundown with the arms and legs of me and my buddies intact. (Henry Rollins Quotes)
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. (Henry Rollins Quotes)
Nowadays, the media have to be there to keep you from asking too many questions, from getting together with other people who might want to do the Jeffersonian thing and call out the government. (Henry Rollins Quotes)
When someone asks you, ‘What’s punk?’ my reply is, ‘If you have to ask, you’re never going to know.’ (Henry Rollins Quotes)
It’s one thing to buy a copy of ‘Atlas Shrugged.’ You actually have to read it to get anything out of it. (Henry Rollins Quotes)
Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience’s attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say. (Henry Rollins Quotes)
I don’t really think about the audience much. I think of myself. Let me dig myself out of that one. (Henry Rollins Quotes)
August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame. That, coupled with the oppressive heat and humidity of my native Washington, D.C., only seemed to heighten the misery. (Henry Rollins Quotes)
If the death of Osama Bin Laden brings any peace to those who lost loved ones on that awful day in September 2001, that is a great thing. It is more likely, however, just a painful reminder of what was lost. (Henry Rollins Quotes)
The perpetrators of the actual bad stuff that does real and lasting harm to people, like leakage of industrial chemicals into water systems, seem to get not so much as a second glance; the bloviation from media pundits and think tanks creates false problems that waste time and energy debunking. (Henry Rollins Quotes)
I listen to blues music a lot and that’s a good person feeling bad and celebrating that pain by releasing it in that kind of joyous fashion. (Henry Rollins Quotes)
It’s easy for me to play bad guys because it’s a very linear acting. Bad guys aren’t empathetic. Being a bad guy is great because you’re not friendly and you don’t have to do much with your face. (Henry Rollins Quotes)
We’re at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head down a very bad, dark trail to where a lot of people aren’t going to make it. (Henry Rollins Quotes)
I continually remind myself to live by a code. It’s very important to me. I’ve got a bad temper. (Henry Rollins Quotes)
I’ll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does. (Henry Rollins Quotes)
Human beings should not be reduced to a state to where they almost get into a fight over a small bar of soap. (Henry Rollins Quotes)
SMiLE’ is perhaps the Beach Boys’ most legendary album. It was recorded in 1966 and 1967 but only saw a formal release in 2011. That’s a long time to wait for what was said to be Brian Wilson’s masterpiece. (Henry Rollins Quotes)
I was very lucky to have had the opportunity to tour with the Beastie Boys and watched almost every set they played on all those dates. Why not? You do your set and then you get to see the Beasties play? Best deal in town. (Henry Rollins Quotes)
When I think of Mick Jagger still singing that he can’t get any satisfaction in over forty years of being in the Rolling Stones, I have to conclude that he’s either lying or not all that bright. (Henry Rollins Quotes)
As far as I have been able to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote and polite to the point of being invisible. It is in the music, literature, film and art that the Japanese really seem to express themselves. (Henry Rollins Quotes)