If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and never, ever seek cure outside of more music. It really is the best drug available.
Interpretation
Music can be a powerful and essential part of life, offering a form of emotional and spiritual healing.
In this quote, Henry Rollins emphasizes the profound impact of music on our lives, suggesting that it can serve as a remedy for various challenges we face. He likens music to a drug that provides healing and solace, advocating for a deep and unwavering dedication to it, implying that such an addiction can enhance our well-being and inspire us.
In practice
During a motivational speech to emphasize the importance of music in overcoming life's obstacles.
Some people see Black Friday as a much-needed break for their wallet. I see it as retail outlets showing the customers the full weight of their contempt. The frenzy to buy cheap crap from China, the human downgrade of people fighting with each other over items they can probably live without, to me, is an insult.
Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't.
Sitting in a room, alone, listening to a CD is to be lonely. Sitting in a room alone with an LP crackling away, or sitting next to the turntable listening to a song at a time via 7-inch single is enjoying the sublime state of solitude.
When the Iron doesn't want to come off the mat, it's the kindest thing it can do for you. If it flew up and went through the ceiling, it wouldn't teach you anything.
If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.
If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you
The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form.
Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.
It's always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.
The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.
My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can.
Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.
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