Henry Rollins Quotes

More than 30 years ago, in Washington, D.C., I secured a copy of a single by a Los Angeles band called The Bags. The two-song 7-inch, released on Dangerhouse, had a girl on the cover who looked right at you with huge eyes. The songs, 'Survive' and 'Babylonian Gorgon,' were great and made many of my mix tapes.

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• I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' when I was a kid and say 'Yeah!' or 'Boo!' at every single song. So there was nothing in the middle. You brutally put it on one side or another.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Song
  • Single
  • Kid

• I love to go shopping and see what catches my eye.

  

  Patrick Schwarzenegger
  • Love
  • See
  • Shopping

• I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Think
  • Band
  • Worst

• The song 'What Goes Up' was inspired as I was playing the piano and reminiscing about the Spaceship One launches I witnessed in the Mojave desert. It is an awesome thing to comprehend the magnitude of what a human being dreams and imagines can be realized.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Up
  • Song
  • Inspired

• If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.

  

  Carl Perkins
  • Song
  • Bed
  • Rocks

• I would love to be a guys' girl, but they always end up falling in love with me, so I'm a girls' girl instead. I've tried having friendly relationships with men, but it ends up being impossible, and I've been around the block too many times not to see it coming.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Up
  • Men
  • Love

• It's like with a girl: it's more fun to meet and slowly, gradually learn things about each other. A little mystery is always nice and it's interesting to still learn new things about someone you are involved with.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Fun
  • Girl
  • Interesting

• Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with? Probably the one that I haven't hung most with recently.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Kids
  • Song
  • You

• 'Aqualung' marks the point at which I had the confidence as a songwriter and as a guitar player to actually pick up and play the guitar and be at the forefront of the band. It's also the album on which I began to address religious issues in my music, and I think that happened simply because the time was right for it.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.

  

  Saadi
  • Heart
  • Eye
  • Lovely

• I don't want to have a song like 'My Humps' and it be sagging down, so I pay attention to that area. A lot.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Song
  • Attention
  • Area

• He was my North, my South, my East and West,My working week and my Sunday rest,My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Song
  • Rest
  • Sunday

• If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • Up
  • America
  • Girl

• I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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• I've passed up on many a thing that could have made me a big artist or something. Like, I was offered a feature on a Christina Aguilera song and I turned it down. It just wasn't right. She's cool, but it just wasn't right.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Up
  • She
  • Song

• We're a rock n' roll band. We're more music and rock n' roll than politics.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Music
  • Band
  • Rock

• But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.

  

  Buddy Rich
  • Band

• As a young girl, I remember singing CeCe Penniston's 'Don't Walk Away.' It was like my jam.

  

  Elle Varner
  • Remember
  • Girl
  • Singing

• My band and I, we cover our bodies in hairspray and glitter. We use the hairspray to make sure the glitter sticks.

  

  Kesha
  • Band
  • Glitter

• My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Written
  • Artistic
  • My Mother

• If we could reach the point where many of our nation's future leaders know what teachers know after teaching successfully in our highest-need schools, we would have a very different situation.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Different
  • Future
  • Know

• I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Funny
  • Weird
  • Looking

• We throw at female artists this expectation that their work has to speak to the female experience. And if it doesn't, you're letting the side down. Throwing this stumbling block in the way of female artists is counterintuitive.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Expectation

• More than 30 years ago, in Washington, D.C., I secured a copy of a single by a Los Angeles band called The Bags. The two-song 7-inch, released on Dangerhouse, had a girl on the cover who looked right at you with huge eyes. The songs, 'Survive' and 'Babylonian Gorgon,' were great and made many of my mix tapes.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
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