Al Jourgensen on local
Al Jourgensen51 quotes“No, we have to support our local artists. It’s just that simple. Otherwise, we will have no art.”
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Rock n Roll Animal, the live album, is one of the greatest live albums out there. It was a huge influence on me.
Al JourgensenAl Jourgensen I pissed away over ten million dollars.
Al JourgensenAl Jourgensen I’m male gigolo. Professionally? I don’t think I’ve ever done anything professionally.
Al JourgensenAl Jourgensen If you remember the ‘90s, you weren’t there.
Al JourgensenAl Jourgensen I feel great. George W.Bush is leaving. We’re leaving. It’s all perfect timing.
Al JourgensenAl Jourgensen I’m for Barack Obama. We gotta have the Muslim cell in there just to piss Rush Limbaugh and the right wing off.
Al JourgensenAl Jourgensen Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.
Al JourgensenAl Jourgensen Our label is very digital-friendly. We try to provide some free stuff to get interest in the band, but we have to pay our artists. They have to get paid.
Al JourgensenAl Jourgensen I’m still a recluse. I still hate everyone. I’m still a misanthrope.
Al JourgensenAl Jourgensen I had to do another couple of albums about this idiot. Then I had to play in front of 37 people. It was horrible. I was crying. I was freaked out.
Al JourgensenAl Jourgensen I’d rather live life than watch somebody else living it.
Al JourgensenAl Jourgensen It certainly is gravy every day above ground right now, after kicking that heroin habit.
Al JourgensenAl Jourgensen Rock n roll is for the young idiots, not an old fart like me.
Al JourgensenAl Jourgensen In the 70s, what thrash was there? Punk came on, and that was cool. But there was no thrash.
Al JourgensenAl Jourgensen Radiohead’s already got their yachts and mansions. Sharon Osbourne already has her empire
Al JourgensenAl Jourgensen Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs.
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E. B. WhiteE. B. White We take pleasure not only in the growth of our patient but also in the ripple effect—the salutary influence our patients have upon those whom they touch in life.
Irvin D. YalomIrvin D. Yalom The Hulk, Detective Comics, Action Comics, you name it. Seeing those old books got me interested in new comics, so my friends and I would hit the local comic shop every Saturday to pick up the cool titles of my generation.
Alan RobertAlan Robert An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
Wendell BerryWendell Berry Kitchen-table start-ups and local entrepreneurs will find they have major new opportunities opened to them, as they gain easier and quicker access for their goods and services into one of the world’s largest markets.
Liz TrussLiz Truss The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there’s a reason for that – the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent – No Child Left Behind.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke People will be able to raise their concerns: what are local officers doing about the drug dealing in the local park? What’s happening about the pub where all the trouble is? And the police will have to respond.
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