Top 500 Henry Rollins Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent.”

— Henry Rollins

452. “In many ways, America is on the receiving end of a pendulum that has been swung with great force, and for a long time, outward into the world. The impact is a wake-up call on every level.”

— Henry Rollins

453. “I never think of what it’s going to be like later. I only think in the present tense. The only time I think backwards is when I have to reissue something.”

— Henry Rollins

454. “I’m disappointed by bands left and right, every day.”

— Henry Rollins

455. “Someone like Ashlee Simpson, she lip-synchs on ‘Saturday Night Live,’ gets totally called out la Milli Vanilli, and no one really cares that much. It doesn’t make me hate Ashlee; she’s just taking instructions.”

— Henry Rollins

456. “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

457. “I’m not trying to say I’m a big tough guy, I’m a typical American waist deep in this violent culture.”

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

459. “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

460. “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

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

— Henry Rollins

462. “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

463. “I think Americans suffer for their lack of travel, awareness of the world. It has horribly warped our sense of place in the scheme of things.”

— Henry Rollins

464. “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

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

467. “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

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

— Henry Rollins

469. “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

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

— Henry Rollins

471. “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

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

— Henry Rollins

473. “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

474. “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

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

— Henry Rollins

476. “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

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

— Henry Rollins

478. “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

479. “I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran.”

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

481. “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

482. “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

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

485. “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

486. “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

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

— Henry Rollins

488. “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

489. “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

490. “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

491. “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

492. “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

493. “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

494. “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

495. “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

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

— Henry Rollins

497. “I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself.”

— Henry Rollins

498. “In my many trips to South Africa, I have met and spoken to a lot of people there, and they all seem to find apartheid as repellent as you would.”

— Henry Rollins

499. “There is no way you are going to be forgiven for blowing up a village and killing a bunch of people.”

— Henry Rollins

500. “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