It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to talk about music, it's all marketing, and that's part of a record, you gotta get it out there, people have gotta hear it, but you could do it in a way that's not repulsive.


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Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say...
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I think it is incumbent on anyone who can to lift human dignity to the highest possible levels, main...
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I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind.
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I think it's fantastic when the young enrage their elders. I really do believe that if it's ...
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Imagine someone so infatuated by a band that they have every different pressing of every album the b...
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And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russ...
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This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off ...
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Live music is the cure for what ails ya.
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I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don’t already know, and m...
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If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in Ame...
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The Wacken festival started more than 20 years ago with just a few hundred people in attendance. Tic...
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You are beautiful like demolition. Just the thought of you draws my knuckles white. I don’t need a...
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Mr. Christ, I read you as an infinitely patient entity who, as they say, often works in mysterious w...
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Marriage equality is a term so ridiculous on its face that when you hear it mentioned, you would thi...
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Nelson Mandela will always be the face of South Africa. The traveler passing through the country wil...
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I think more tolerance, more people having more access to a chance to be literate, and a chance to s...
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The fact is, in the minds of many, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a true cri...
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Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.
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Since the last tour I have done a lot of extensive travel to Iraq, Kuwait, Siberia, South Korea and ...
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I walk the straight lines. I walk through the summer nights. I walk the silver rope of dreams. I wal...
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I am ready for whatever's coming. I expect nothing but to be let down or turned away. I am alone. Go...
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I was burned out on people, their talk and their bullshit.
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You would think that pot had some kind of power; I mean come on, it's a plant, not a reason for livi...
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I want to meet a woman that will make me stop and listen to what she has to say. I want a woman who ...
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Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Beca...
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Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.
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Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.
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One day, I stopped hating.
I ceased all meaningless activity.
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Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold onto something or someone the more it wants to get awa...
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I am too far gone to be rehabilitated.
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Maybe some things are better left broken and scattered
Veiled in darkness, secret bitterness an...
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I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to.
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You can find me in the frozen mood section.
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If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper an...
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Girls aren't beautiful, they're pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are...
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My main goal is to stay alive. To keep fooling myself into hanging around. To keep getting up every ...
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The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdress...
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Barack Obama's administration responded to the Haitian crisis within 24 hours. Here comes the so...
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Nothing Brings People together more, then mutual hatred
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I have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll.
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They say true love only comes around once and you have to hold out and be strong until then. I have ...
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If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mo...
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We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is huma...
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Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very act...
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I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page...
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It's easy for me to play bad guys because it's a very linear acting. Bad guys aren't emp...
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If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper an...
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There's no such thing as an ex-junkie.
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'Duck Dynasty' is a ridiculous show, and long may it wave. America and democracy will endure...
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Life is full of choices, if you have the guts to go for it. That's why I get immediately bored with ...
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