Henry Rollins Quotes

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Henry Rollins

Profession : Musician

Birth : February 13, 1961

'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.

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Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

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Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.

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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.

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We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

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War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.

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The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.

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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.

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Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

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I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation.

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I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation.

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I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.

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With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.

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Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.

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Live music is the cure for what ails ya.

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In Israel, there's a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you've got to deal with the truth. Things happen real fast. Your day goes from cool to catastrophic in one second. Israelis know that the cafe you're in could blow up, or the shopping mall, and they rock that.

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I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singing Black Sabbath songs year after year, whether he was performing with Black Sabbath or out on a solo tour. He said it was great.

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I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool.

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Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

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I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions.

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