Top 500 Henry Rollins Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than any teacher’s well-intentioned lecture on Martin Luther King did.”

— Henry Rollins

452. “Airports in major cities, like LAX, are trippy environments. It is at once a national and international gathering of those in transition: The euphoric, emerging from planes, their journey at an end, and the determined, about to depart.”

— Henry Rollins

453. “I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book.”

— Henry Rollins

454. “If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back.”

— Henry Rollins

455. “Juan Williams is a very sharp guy.”

— Henry Rollins

456. “I work pretty much every day. I can’t really separate it from life, so I guess the work is my life.”

— Henry Rollins

457. “I was at this guy’s house. I met this girl who was hanging out there. She was real pretty, she had brown eyes and dark hair. She was soft-spoken and real nice. I know that everyone has their own life and they can do what they want and you shouldn’t think anything of it or anything. But man, I couldn’t help but flinch a little when I saw all those needle marks in her arm, they looked so sore. Hateful little holes. I wanted to say something, but I didn’t.”

— Henry Rollins

458. “For me the music is not so much anger as much as it is of passion. And I’ve always associated that kind of intense emotional output with music just because the nature of the music that’s attracted me as far as live.”

— Henry Rollins

459. “When I am in Africa, I realize I don’t know much, have not seen much, and there’s a lot to be done.”

— Henry Rollins

460. “When I see the hatred exacted at Mr. Obama – you know, he lowered your taxes, killed your number one bad guy and got your guys out of Iraq – I don’t understand why he seems to inflame people so much. You know, unless, unless there’s a race problem.”

— Henry Rollins

461. “When you start thinking as far as what’s a good photo, unfortunately everything starts looking like a good photo.”

— Henry Rollins

462. “We Californians can watch the Weather Channel for images of winter’s brutality unleashed upon our fellow Americans and thank our lucky stars we don’t have to contend with it.”

— Henry Rollins

463. “I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent.”

— Henry Rollins

464. “Florida is a crazy place, and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here.”

— Henry Rollins

465. “Your commander would never lie to you. That’s the vice president’s job.”

— Henry Rollins

466. “I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body – causing me injury or death – to be an assault weapon.”

— Henry Rollins

467. “I would like to become a better photographer. I’m working on that.”

— Henry Rollins

468. “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

469. “It’s hard to keep your backbone straight in America. It’s easy to turn into that which you hate, and to get smashed.”

— Henry Rollins

470. “Songs sung under duress are often very powerful.”

— Henry Rollins

471. “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.”

— Henry Rollins

472. “All I can do is just do stuff while I am alive and hopefully that track record will speak for itself.”

— Henry Rollins

473. “As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.”

— Henry Rollins

474. “The most interesting place by far was Afghanistan. Just because it is a place that I cannot see myself living. The hardness of the people and the history of the country is just so completely intense.”

— Henry Rollins

475. “For the last 30-plus years, I have been doing one long, uninterrupted improv.”

— Henry Rollins

476. “Let’s pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you’ve got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often.”

— Henry Rollins

477. “Seasonal change in Los Angeles is often a very subtle thing. It’s not as if we finally stop having to shovel the snow out of our driveways and can put our parkas back in the closet.”

— Henry Rollins

478. “You can find me in the frozen mood section.”

— Henry Rollins

479. “Technically speaking, there is no music whatsoever on a CD. Lots of information, but no music.”

— Henry Rollins

480. “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.”

— Henry Rollins

481. “For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa.”

— Henry Rollins

482. “To burn a CDR of music you like to give as a gift to someone you wish to become closer to is a cold, moist-palmed, mouth-breathing bummer.”

— Henry Rollins

483. “I’m just shallow and self-interested, and don’t get out much because I’m afraid of real commitments.”

— Henry Rollins

484. “All of the jobs have gone away to satisfy the stockholders, so that’s where the economy has gone. These major multinational corporations do not see their futures in America.”

— Henry Rollins

485. “Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now – not remotely.”

— Henry Rollins

486. “I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.”

— Henry Rollins

487. “The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, ‘We were just on tour, and we had people coming to our show saying they had never heard us before they heard us on your show.’”

— Henry Rollins

488. “The reality is that we are going to have problems with water in this century. And the fact that we are going to have problems with fossil fuel is a given.”

— Henry Rollins

489. “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

490. “I’m not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.”

— Henry Rollins

491. “All of the things that the bible warns you of being: jealous, covetous, murderous, selfish, etc., that’s kind of how humans are.”

— Henry Rollins

492. “I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it’s always good to be back.”

— Henry Rollins

493. “I’m of the opinion that the Democrats have the ideas I agree with more often than not. Reenergizing the middle class and giving people a break.”

— Henry Rollins

494. “If I could go to Kabul and not die, I would go back to Afghanistan as soon as I could. And, that was the most interesting place that I’ve been to.”

— Henry Rollins

495. “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.”

— Henry Rollins

496. “Well, there’s Katrina, but you can go through lots of Kurdistan and it looks like Katrina was just there but there’s people living in it.”

— Henry Rollins

497. “Life has no instruction manual. Parts and labor can be impossible to find. Many go down the road with parts that are in great need of service. A breakdown is eventual.”

— Henry Rollins

498. “Trayvon Martin did not need to die.”

— Henry Rollins

499. “There’s nothing funny about, ‘Yeah, I took a First Class plane ticket and I went to some designer beach and made out with a Laotian slave girl.’ Who cares?”

— Henry Rollins

500. “I don’t ask for much. I should ask for a lot, then maybe I might get some.”

— Henry Rollins