Henry Rollins Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
-
A lot of EDM is not bad at all when it's simple, but a lot of it is not really musical. That's just what I really like to do: taking what I had at the beginning, which is classical and jazz influences, and putting it into electro.
-
If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
-
Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
-
My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.
-
We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women.
-
In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country.
-
A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections.
-
Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.
-
I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.
-
I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.
-
The women's movement ruined a permanent vacation.
-
If someone tried to deprive you of your rights, you've got to resist it. You've got to resent it. You've got to fight against it.
-
I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.
-
If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear all at once.
-
My music is jazz.
-
Unfortunately, the rights to 'System Shock' trademark and copyright are both up in the air.
-
The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.
-
I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.
-
My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.
-
Just try to focus one game at a time, not worry about points or anything like that. Worry about playing the right way and see what comes of it.
-
The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.
-
My dad worked two jobs and moved us to the suburbs, and just being a black person, I went through a lot of racism and being called names and being bullied every single day. And it was hard. I didn't have any friends.
-
For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.
