Henry Rollins Quotes:- Henry Rollins (born February 13, 1961) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, actor, presenter, comedian, and activist. He currently hosts a weekly radio show on KCRW, is a regular columnist for Rolling Stone Australia, and was a regular columnist for LA Weekly.
Inspirational Henry Rollins Quotes And Sayings
“I think it is incumbent on anyone who can lift human dignity to the highest possible levels, maintaining one’s own and helping to raise that of others.”-Henry Rollins
“It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.”-Henry Rollins
“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.”-Henry Rollins
“I am on until I am dead, like a light bulb.”-Henry Rollins
“Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.”-Henry Rollins
“Now, if someone wants to spit on me, I just roll up the window of my BMW 540i.”-Henry Rollins
“We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer’s wreckage. We will welcome summer’s ghost.”-Henry Rollins
“I don’t want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride.”-Henry Rollins
“I would like to become a better photographer. I’m working on that.”-Henry Rollins
“To me, the real ‘state of the union’ is found in how Americans react to current events.”-Henry Rollins
“Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.”-Henry Rollins
“Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.”-Henry Rollins
Best Henry Rollins Quotes And Sayings
“I’m not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much.”-Henry Rollins
“I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.”-Henry Rollins
“Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.”-Henry Rollins
“You want to meet a bunch of really friendly people? Go to a Slayer concert. There’ll be some real psychos there, but most of those people will take care of each other.”-Henry Rollins
“Humans are pretty crafty but will fold quickly in severe cold.”-Henry Rollins
“Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.”-Henry Rollins
“My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.”-Henry Rollins
“I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars.”-Henry Rollins
“Live music is the cure for what ails ya.”-Henry Rollins
“Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets in the way of it is politicians and apathy.”-Henry Rollins
“Where there are young people and vitality, you’re going to find a punk rock.”-Henry Rollins
“This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slew the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles.”-Henry Rollins
“The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father’s face, he’s pushing back. He’s sticking it to the man as he sees it. I like that. So that is punk.”-Henry Rollins
“Being unique is never easy, and often, by the time culture catches up with you, there are only a few people who notice.”-Henry Rollins
Inspiring Quotes by Henry Rollins
“Fox News’ will one day come to an end. Led Zeppelin will not. It’s as simple as that.”-Henry Rollins
“The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short.”-Henry Rollins
“One person’s roar is another’s whine, just as one person’s music is another’s unendurable noise.”-Henry Rollins
“The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless.”-Henry Rollins
“When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.”-Henry Rollins
“Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.”-Henry Rollins
“I have healthy disagreements with political parties I’m not aligned with, but I don’t think it should be to the point where we’re cursing and trying to strangle each other.”-Henry Rollins
“Duck Dynasty’ is a ridiculous show, and long may it wave. America and democracy will endure. They’ve seen a lot worse.”-Henry Rollins
“Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowded room with boring people than I feel on my own.”-Henry Rollins
“Maybe I’m just a psycho, and the stage is a better place to go than either the loony bin or somewhere else.”-Henry Rollins
“My motto is, ‘Never quit.'”-Henry Rollins
“Creating problems is easy. We do it all the time. Finding solutions, ones that last and produce good results requires guts and care.”-Henry Rollins
“Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.”-Henry Rollins
Famous Henry Rollins Quotes
“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.”-Henry Rollins
“In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.”-Henry Rollins
“Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward.”-Henry Rollins
“I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to eat, you really need some sleep. A few days later, things become strange. Loud noises become louder and more startling, familiar sounds become unfamiliar, and life reinvents itself as a surrealist dream.”-Henry Rollins
“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.”-Henry Rollins
“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.”-Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins Quotes About Music
“Everything I do, writing, touring, traveling, it all comes from the punk and hardcore attitude, from that expression – from being open to trying things but relying on yourself, taking what you have into the battle and making of it what you will, hoping you can figure it out as you go. Make some sense of it.”-Henry Rollins
“I think it’s fantastic when the young enrage their elders. I really do believe that if it’s too loud, you are indeed too old and that if it has been standing for too long, it needs a thorough inspection.”-Henry Rollins
“Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn’t worth the time and effort.”-Henry Rollins
“The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.”-Henry Rollins
“I’m actually on the Twitter-like all those crazy young kids are, and if I’m going to do an in-store appearance or I post something on my website, I tweet these followers, a word I don’t like so much, and over 50,000 people go, like, ‘Okay, I got it.'”-Henry Rollins
“I’m a big fan of the American Tapes label. But that’s very hard to keep a grip on that because you blink your eyes and they’ve released three records, all of which are limited edition, all sold at one show. So you have to follow in drips and drops on eBay, which I do.”-Henry Rollins
Top 10 Henry Rollins Quotes
“I’ve never heard Daft Punk; I’ve never heard a track of theirs in my life. They’re the two guys with motorcycle helmets on?”-Henry Rollins
“I don’t have a crystal ball, but I’m willing to bet one of my arms right now that as long as there’s electricity, Ramones music is going to be relevant.”-Henry Rollins
“I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I’m basically a drip.”-Henry Rollins
“And I laugh at myself when I screw things up, which happens all the time.”-Henry Rollins
“To this day, my haircut is the number two clippers, which I apply to myself every month.”-Henry Rollins
“August, the summer’s last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.”-Henry Rollins
“I love capitalism. It rewards me for being brave – it awards me for being innovative and thinking out of the box.”-Henry Rollins
“The truth is an anti-war statement in itself.”-Henry Rollins
“We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind’s collective GDP.”-Henry Rollins
“Early spring is the time for a vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.”-Henry Rollins
“When someone asks you, ‘What’s punk?’ my reply is, ‘If you have to ask, you’re never going to know.'”-Henry Rollins
