Henry Rollins Quotes
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Can you imagine telling a woman she can't vote!? The women I hang out with would be going home with parts of your anatomy swinging from their rearview.
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Adolescence is a plague on the senses.
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All I can do is just do stuff while I am alive and hopefully that track record will speak for itself.
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BULLLLLSHIT!!
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Now you see how you are, the wisdom mixed in with all the scars.
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If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you.
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Technically speaking, there is no music whatsoever on a CD. Lots of information, but no music.
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The rich survive and everyone else gets ready to work 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 jobs and what do you get? Blade Runner. Welcome to your science fiction. Your 21st century. I think that's where it goes. The rich get richer and everyone else... the middle class kind of starts dropping lower and lower.
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As miserable as life may be I hold it pretty precious
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She touches me The jungle lights up with incinerating fire Looks like a flaming serpent I look into her eyes I see a movie flickering Car crashes People kicking corpses Men ripping their tracheas out and shaking them at the sky I think to myself: I don’t want to survive this one I want to burn up in the wreckage Cooking flesh in the jungle
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With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.
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There is no way you are going to be forgiven for blowing up a village and killing a bunch of people.
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It is you who makes me see what I really am.
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I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us.
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Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.
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When life hands you a lemon, say 'Oh yeah, I like lemons. What else you got?
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Trying to write music, be in a band and keep it all happening is one of the hardest, morale-destroying, heartbreaking things you will ever try to do - and that's when it's going well.
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Knowledge without Mileage is bullshit to me.
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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.
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When I think of Mick Jagger still singing that he can't get any satisfaction in over forty years of being in the Rolling Stones, I have to conclude that he's either lying or not all that bright.
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Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.
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Cynicism is only intellectual sloth.
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You’ll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of despair.
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Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.