Henry Rollins Quotes And Sayings

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.

Jazz Music Is As American As It Gets, And So Is The U.s. Postal Service. A Miles Davis Stamp Is A Perfect Marriage Of Two Great American Institutions.

As Performers Grow Older, I Reckon There Are Two Ways They Can Go. They Can Either Be Up There, Playing More Deeply From Their Guts Than Ever, Or They Can Be Phoning It In So Crassly That It Leaves A Lump In Your Throat As You Leave The Venue At The End Of The Show.

Smart People Make Good Choices. They Dig Science And Say 'No' To The Invasion Of Sovereign Nations For The Pleasure Of Corporations.

I Have Always Maintained That Iggy Pop Is The Heavyweight Champion Of Rock &Amp; Roll.

For Many Years, My Favorite Director Has Been The Japanese Giant Akira Kurosawa.

To Combat The Confusion And Depression That Assault Me When I Come Off The Road In The Middle Of A Tour, I Seek The Most Oblivionated Music Possible. When It's The 'Way Out There' That I Seek, I Go Right To My Stash Of Amazing Music From Japan.

The Civil Rights Act Of 1964 Was Vigorously And Vociferously Opposed By The Southern States. President Lyndon B. Johnson Signed It Into Law Nonetheless.

Texas Is As Odd As It Is Vast.

I Would Hate To Think That Some People Have Found Themselves In A Musical Cul-de-sac And Have Ceased To Explore New Music, Or At Least Music That Is New To Them, Because They Are So Glued To The Past.

Florida Is A Crazy Place, And I Have Played Some Of The Wildest Shows Of My Life Here.

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.

In The Summer Of 1991, I Was On The First Lollapalooza Tour. Nightly, I Would Watch Jane's Addiction Singer Perry Farrell Go Out In Front Of A Sea Of People And Within Minutes Have All Of Them In The Palm Of His Hand. I Have Never Seen Anything Like It Since.

There's Something About Being Under-rested And Knowing That The Situation Is Going To Remain That Way For Quite Some Time That Makes Things More Meaningful.

People Will Remember That The Tea Party Was Co-opted And Funded By Billion-dollar Corporations, And That It Was Supported By Fox News And Other Outlets With The Same Vigor With Which They Attempt To Denigrate The Occupy Protesters.

I Urge You To Read The Occupy Manifesto, Written By The New York City General Assembly. It Is Unavoidably Clear. This Is Not Directionless Action. If It Were, The Media Would Have Moved On.

It Is Only Our Humanity That Can Deliver Us From The Brutality Of Our Achievements.

I Know That Collector Types Can Be A Pain In The Neck And Seem Perpetually Frozen In Time - Or At Least In Their Parents' Basement - But Someone Has To Look Out For The Past, Lest It Slip Away Forever.

I Get Letters From Young People Telling Me That They're Broke And Download My Albums For Free. They Ask Me What I Think About That. I Now Have A Standard Line. I Tell Them, 'I Would Rather Be Heard Than Paid.'

I Don't Mind Bees And Think We Are All The Better For Having Them Around. I Like The Taste Of Honey.

One Of The Nice Things About A Favorite Pop Song Is That It's An Unconditional Truce On Judgment And Musical Snobbery. You Like The Song Because You Just Do, And There Need Not Be Any Further Criticism.

One Of The Nice Things About A Favorite Pop Song Is That It's An Unconditional Truce On Judgment And Musical Snobbery. You Like The Song Because You Just Do, And There Need Not Be Any Further Criticism.

Guns Are Part Of The American Identity.

I Have Come To Regard November As The Older, Harder Man's October. I Appreciate The Early Darkness And Cooler Temperatures. It Puts My Mind In A Different Place Than October. It Is A Month For A Quieter, Slightly More Subdued Celebration Of Summer's Death As Winter Tightens Its Grip.

To My Ears, Jazz Sounds Better In Warm Weather And After The Sun Has Gone Down. While I Will Listen To Some Of My Favorite Jazz Records In Cooler Weather, It's The Warmer Nights That Really Make Them Come Alive. Something About Those Sounds And The Heat Of The Night Really Makes It Happen For Me.

I Have A Lot Of Compact Discs. I Need Them For Radio Play And Convenience. Many Bands And Artists I Am A Fan Of Don't Always Release Their Work On Vinyl, So I Take What They Feel Like Giving Me.

For Me, Returning To Los Angeles Annihilates The Memories Of Where I Have Just Been With An Astonishing Speed.

Of Course Same Sex Marriage Is Constitutional! The Right To Be Yourself, To Pursue Life, Liberty, And Property, Is Protected Several Ways Over Several Amendments. John Boehner Should Know This.

That Newt Gingrich Or Any Mainstream Republican Has The Nerve To Look Down From What They Perceive As Their Moral Mountaintop At Anyone Is Laughable.

Rush Limbaugh Makes Money Getting Simpleminded People To Feel Good About Their Intellectually Undernourished Brain Spasms. He's Very Good At It, And I Scarcely Believe A Fraction Of What He Says.

In The City Of Pyongyang, You Don't Have To Look Very Far To See An Image Of The Great Leader, Kim Il Sung. They Love The Guy. He Is Responsible For The Wonder That Is North Korea.

I Don't Mind The Boss. I Think He's An Honest Guy. I Have Some Of His Records, Not All Of Them. I've Met A Couple Of The E-street Guys, And They Seem Really Cool.

I Think Marriage Is A Boring And Fault-ridden Contractual Obligation.

The Only Thing Worse Than The Pastor Terry Jones Scheduled Koran Burning Is The Fact That He Canceled The Proposed Event.

I Am On Until I Am Dead, Like A Light Bulb.

It Is Just That I Don't Want A Wife And I Don't Want Kids.

I'm Most In My Element On Tour, With A Gig That Day, Like Today. I'm On The Road Where I Am Supposed To Be. I Will Be Where I'm Supposed To Be At Nighttime, On Stage, In Front Of People, Doing My Thing.

I Want To Change Things For The Better, Just Like Everybody Else.

I Mean I Appreciate Fan Mail And That The People Like What I Am Doing But I Can't Answer It. If I Would Answer 25 Letters A Day I Would Be Just A Guy Answering Mail And Not An Artist Anymore.

I Can Deal With People Who Watch Me On Stage But I Am Not Good In Communicating With People Any Other Way Than Through My Work.

I'm Very Boring.

I'm Mellower Now, I'm Over 50. But I Don't Think I'm Too Mellow. I'm Still Angry At A Lot Of Things.

I Forged Myself Out Of A Vacuum. I Crawl Along The Highway On Hacked Off Stumps Year After Year. Some Wonder How And Why. I Never Do.

And I Love The Hate Mail I Get, The Unsigned, Misspelled Letters I Get Telling Me To Go Back To Russia Or Wherever.

If The Constitution Was A Movie, The Preamble Would Be The Trailer, The First Amendment The Establishing Shot, The 13th The Crowd Pleaser And The 14th The Ultimate Hero Scene.

I Have Always Thought That Change You Can See And Feel Is Best.

I'm Most Comfortable On Stage.

I Think Politicians Get Hamstrung By The Nature Of Politics When The Private Sector Can Really Do Great Things.

Most Of The People Who Call Me A Sellout Were 7 When I Was Down Face-first In The Punk Trenches.

You Don't Have To Twist My Arm To Work.