Henry Rollins Quotes And Sayings

Try Driving The Streets Of Los Angeles Without Seeing A Billboard Depicting A Film With A Lead Actor Holding A Gun. It's Almost As If Guns Are Harmless Props Used To Bring Out The Cheekbones And Jawline Of The Screen Star.

I Come From A Town Of Great Musicians: Washington, D.c. It's No Joke, That History.

Nothing Moves Me More Than The History Of The United States.

I Never Had Any Interest In Being Involved With The Boy Scouts.

Kids Need Parents Who Love And Support Them Unconditionally, Full Stop.

The More I Learn About Mr. Romney, The Less There Is To Admire.

When You Hear About What Someone Else Is Going Through, And You Are Unable To Distance Yourself From It Or In Any Way Muzzle Your Empathy And Are Inspired To Actually Do Something, These Are Moments To Learn From.

Contemporary Bands Often Will Do Tour-only Releases Pressed And Sold Only In Australia. Crikey!

Between The Dinosaur Jr. Albums And His Recent Solo Albums, 'Several Shades Of Why' And 'Heavy Blanket,' J Mascis Is Emerging As One Of The Last Men From All That '80s Indie Madness, Still Writing Songs That You Want To Listen To Over And Over.

I Was Very Lucky To Have Had The Opportunity To Tour With The Beastie Boys And Watched Almost Every Set They Played On All Those Dates. Why Not? You Do Your Set And Then You Get To See The Beasties Play? Best Deal In Town.

I'm Not Exactly Ambitious As Much As I Have A Very Good Realization Of What I Am And What I Am Capable Of.

Rock N' Roll Unchained A Nation And Revolutionized Radio And The Record Industry, Not To Mention The Motion Picture Business.

My Father Did Not Rock. He Just Earned And Hated. Don't End Up Like This Man.

Technically Speaking, There Is No Music Whatsoever On A Cd. Lots Of Information, But No Music.

I Remember When Martin Luther King Was Assassinated. I Was Up Early Watching Television And Watched The Announcement. I Didn't Understand What The Word 'Assassinated' Meant.

When I Am In Africa, I Realize I Don't Know Much, Have Not Seen Much, And There's A Lot To Be Done.

I Think More Airtime Should Be Given To Donald Trump And Orly Taitz. They Should Run For Office Together. They Should Open For Charlie Sheen.

When People Make My Country Look Bad, I Can't Stand It.

As The Middle Class Is Predated Upon With An Ever Greater Malicious Intensity, Their Children Stand To Lose More And Harder Than Their Parents Ever Did.

I Don't Think You'll Ever Have A Perfect World Because We Humans Are Prone To Error, And So We're Always In Search Of An Upgrade.

Republicans Just Can't Help Themselves. They Get In Front Of A Live Microphone And Within A Few Sentences Are Rocketing Down The Swiftest And Most Direct Route To The All-you-can-eat Comedian-and-talk-show-host Buffet.

The Month Of November Makes Me Feel That Life Is Passing More Quickly. In An Effort To Slow It Down, I Try To Fill The Hours More Meaningfully.

There's Always Going To Be A Need For Activism; There's Always Going To Be A Need For You And Me Doing The Right Thing, Being Very Lincoln-sonian In Looking Out For Each Other.

I'm Not Harmful, Just Introspective. You Can Probably Think I'm Weird, But It's Not Harmful Weird.

When You're Going Into An Employment Environment That Looks Pretty Scary, It Is Easy To Lose Your Moral Compass, Your Decency, Your Sense Of Civility And Your Sense Of Community.

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.'

My Motto Is, 'Never Quit.'

Musicians Should Not Play Music. Music Should Play Musicians.

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.

To Me, The Real 'State Of The Union' Is Found In How Americans React To Current Events.

Before Any American Points A Finger At President Putin And Calls Him Nasty Names, They Should Recognize That A Lot Of Americans Agree With Putin On His Stance Against Homosexual And Transgender People.

Mr. Christ, I Read You As An Infinitely Patient Entity Who, As They Say, Often Works In Mysterious Ways, A Rebel Unafraid To Take The Tougher, Less Traveled Paths. Seems To Me You're Playing The Long Game. Is That Why More States Are Coming Out In Favor Of Marriage Equality? Is That Why The Affordable Care Act Is Now With Us?

August, The Summer's Last Messenger Of Misery, Is A Hollow Actor.

Pizza Makes Me Think That Anything Is Possible.

It Took Me Until My Teenage Years To Realize That I Was Medicating With Music. I Was Pushing Back Against My Stupid School Uniform, Instructors Who Called Me By My Last Name And My Classmates, Who, While Friendly Enough, Were Not At All Inspiring.

While I Have No Empirical Evidence To Back This Up, I Bet That The Number Of Homosexual People Per Thousand Has Not Fluctuated All That Much Over The Centuries. I Do Not Believe The Dented Wisdom My Father Used To Extol, That Homosexuality Was A Sure Sign Of A Civilization In Decline.

When A Young Non-white Male Is Stopped And Searched At The Whim Of A Police Officer, His Idea Of Personal Space, Privacy And Self Esteem Are Shattered, To Say Nothing Of His Fourth And Fourteenth Amendment Protections. The Damage Goes Deep Quickly And Stays. Stop &Amp; Frisk, As Well As A Tactic, Is Also An Incitement.

Creating Problems Is Easy. We Do It All The Time. Finding Solutions, Ones That Last And Produce Good Results, Requires Guts And Care.

I Have To Do Things For Myself, And If Those Standards Are Set High, Then It's Up To Me To Pass Or Fail.

I Don't Hate The Government. I Don't Think The Second Amendment Is Being Infringed Upon.

Nelson Mandela Will Always Be The Face Of South Africa. The Traveler Passing Through The Country Will See Mandela's Face Almost Everywhere He Looks. Truly, The Man Is Omnipresent.

To Anger Female Voters In America Is To Tread On The Tiger's Tail. Women Turn Out In Huge Numbers, And They Are Well Aware Of How Their Bodies Work And What They Need.

Marriage Equality Is A Term So Ridiculous On Its Face That When You Hear It Mentioned, You Would Think You Were In Riyadh. Years From Now, Perhaps We Can Lose The Equality Part, The Same-sex Part And Call It What It Is - Marriage.

I Am An Optimist Because I Want To Change Things For The Better And I Know That Blood Has To Be Spilled And Disharmony And Cruelty Are Necessary To Do That.

Consumerism Is At Once The Engine Of America And Simultaneously One Of The Most Revealing Indicators Of Our Collective Shallowness.

We Humans Are Hard To Deal With. We Are A Loud, Complex And Demanding Bunch. Often, We Are Best Dealt With From A Safe Distance And For Only Brief Periods Of Time. This Could Be Why A Lot Of Marriages Fail.

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.

Life Is Weird, Great And Dangerous.

One Of The Most Prevalent And Undermentioned Genres Of Music Is What Is Known As Noise. You Can Find It All Over The World Happening In Basements, Small Venues And Even Some Festivals. Often Blown Off Or Belittled By Critics, The Form For The Most Part Goes Unheard And Unnoticed.

Being Unique Is Never Easy, And Often, By The Time Culture Catches Up With You, There Are Only A Few People Who Notice.