Al Jourgensen Quotes

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• This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career.
• It certainly is gravy every day above ground right now, after kicking that heroin habit. I've been given a second chance in life, and I…
• I'd still prefer to do five nights at a club than one night at Allstate Arena.
• Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.
• Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music…
• I've never seen the Osbournes, I've never seen Paris Hilton. I'd rather read than watch reality TV. I'd rather live life than watch somebody else…
• If you remember the ‘90s, you weren’t there.
• Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life.
• I never read comic books as a kid.
• Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what you can articulate.
• The more you think, the more you ruin things. Art has to come viscerally; otherwise, forget it.
• The very first pharmaceutical commercial I ever heard was 15 seconds of the product and 45 seconds of side effects, so I know that this…
• I love doing film soundtracks and working with directors on how they want the scene to be portrayed on audio as opposed to visual. I…
• Ministry is just ZZ Top with technology.
• I never want to be in that stage where a band ends up playing state fairs and casinos. I am not willing to go out…
• Nothing exceeds like excess.
• This administration affects the everyday life of the common person.
• Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded.
• It's typical of record companies. They sign you because you're unique, and then they want to put you in a mold so they can sell…
• You tell me one other person that graduated from Yale that is as inarticulate as Bush. Yale's a great school, and here's this idiot.

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