Top 500 Henry Rollins Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “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

302. “My first visit to West Berlin was in February 1983. The drive through East Berlin, the fact that West Berlin was surrounded by a wall that was more than 100 miles long – the absurdity and intensity of it really knocked me out.”

— Henry Rollins

303. “Will punk rock ever die? Pal, if you have to ask it’s dead to you.”

— Henry Rollins

304. “The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.”

— Henry Rollins

305. “The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.”

— Henry Rollins

306. “Anyone who wants to help me doesn’t. Anyone who wants to kill me might. Anyone who wants to love me better not.”

— Henry Rollins

307. “I will do my best to dodge tonight’s depression Hide in sleep Damage myself in dreams Wake up older, slightly more used.”

— Henry Rollins

308. “Fish is the only kind of respirating thing that I consume. Everything else I don’t want any part of.”

— Henry Rollins

309. “Entertainment’s hard on the ego. I see why actors are so psycho now. Because there’s so much ‘we don’t want you’ going on in acting. Even big people get rejected but the smaller people – they really get rejected. Trust me – I know.”

— Henry Rollins

310. “Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people – brutal.”

— Henry Rollins

311. “A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.”

— Henry Rollins

312. “It is just that I don’t want a wife and I don’t want kids.”

— Henry Rollins

313. “Some soldier will say, ‘You know, sir, you and I have some political disagreements, but I’m glad you came all the way out here.’ And you know, you say, ‘Well, maybe one day you’ll see the light but I’m glad to be out here with you.’”

— Henry Rollins

314. “When I am in Africa, I always have the feeling that it’s where everything started. When I am in New York, I know it is where everything ended up.”

— Henry Rollins

315. “I don’t want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride.”

— Henry Rollins

316. “I’ve made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.”

— Henry Rollins

317. “Love beyond the damage.”

— Henry Rollins

318. “While they flail about, you will remain calm in the knowledge that you possess strength from within.”

— Henry Rollins

319. “Black Sabbath – one of the world’s universal language of music. I felt proud, for three or four minutes of my life combining my voice with Tony Iommi’s guitar sound.”

— Henry Rollins

320. “As so much music is listened to via MP3 download, many will never experience the joy of analog playback, and for them, I feel sorry. They are missing out.”

— Henry Rollins

321. “I spend a lot of time alone so I get a lot done. I don’t do much else but work, check things out.”

— Henry Rollins

322. “Am I self-righteous? Why not? It’s not like I can count on you to be righteous for me.”

— Henry Rollins

323. “If you listen to ‘The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,’ by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is dripping with rage.”

— Henry Rollins

324. “The Wacken festival started more than 20 years ago with just a few hundred people in attendance. Tickets now sell out before the lineup is announced.”

— Henry Rollins

325. “I’d like to talk to Arnold Schwarzenegger, ’cause I live in California and I just want to see that canned, chemical filled body in my office.”

— Henry Rollins

326. “I think we are in fact, losing free speech. We don’t seem to care though. Many of us don’t seem to notice. We will have to do a lot of work to bring back the American way to America.”

— Henry Rollins

327. “I like the sound of my voice, doesn’t mean it’s any good but I like it. The joke is that “all good singers like the sound of their own voice” so we’ll go with that.”

— Henry Rollins

328. “I see violence in myself; I’ve done some pretty violent things in my lifetime and I’ve been around some pretty severe violence all the way up to homicide.”

— Henry Rollins

329. “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

330. “A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere.”

— Henry Rollins

331. “I don’t want to go with the smooth skin and the calm brow. I hope I end up a blithering idiot cursing the sun – hallucinating, screaming, giving obscene and inane lectures on street corners and public parks.”

— Henry Rollins

332. “I mean Black Flag happened. I was lucky. I don’t think I could have put together something with one percent of that oomph on my own.”

— Henry Rollins

333. “I shoved three CDs up my ass and got them out of Tower Records. It hurt like hell but I did it. New Michael Bolton, new Sting, and the best of Sammy Hagar. Totally painful. Definitely worth it.”

— Henry Rollins

334. “The Internet, the camera cellphone and the like have not only sped up the world’s information uptake, but they have cheapened that which they capture.”

— Henry Rollins

335. “One of the most insane environments I have ever spent time in is a gun range. There we are, all in a line, armed to the teeth, firing away.”

— Henry Rollins

336. “I think young people should travel and travel often to other countries like I do.”

— Henry Rollins

337. “I still have dreams about CBGB’s. I still miss the place.”

— Henry Rollins

338. “Where there is young people and vitality, you’re going to find punk rock.”

— Henry Rollins

339. “For myself, I can’t understand a life without a job. I don’t know what I would do without employment. Retirement is out of the question for me.”

— Henry Rollins

340. “America is off-the-hook gay. I will not go all Ann Coulter on you and say, ‘Our gays are better than their gays,’ but as far as countries go, we are in-your-face gay.”

— Henry Rollins

341. “Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.”

— Henry Rollins

342. “For many years, I tried to make New Year’s resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes.”

— Henry Rollins

343. “And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever.”

— Henry Rollins

344. “People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.”

— Henry Rollins

345. “I wear my sunglasses. Keeps you on one side and me on the other.”

— Henry Rollins

346. “A rose trapped inside a fist.”

— Henry Rollins

347. “I think that Goldman Sachs and the Pentagon determine more of America’s outcome then any president or any congress, that sounds a bit cynical, but I think I am right.”

— Henry Rollins

348. “Retirement in another country is your body is too racked with pain and your hands are too arthritic from the life in the rice patty fields, so you can’t work anymore.”

— Henry Rollins

349. “Spring and fall, those are very inspiring times of the year for me.”

— Henry Rollins

350. “When Black Flag and DOA and all those bands were touring in the early 80s, it was kind of a forest and you just kind of got your way through it. Now it’s like a six lane highway with Starbucks every twenty meters. That’s just civilization.”

— Henry Rollins