Quotes by Henry Rollins

About Henry Rollins:

Henry Rollins is an American musician, writer, journalist, publisher, actor, television and radio host, spoken word artist, comedian, and activist. Rollins hosts a weekly radio show on KCRW. He is also a regular columnist for LA Weekly and Rolling Stone Australia.
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As far as I have been able to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote and polite to the point of being invisible. It is in the music, literature, film and art that the Japanese really seem to express themse...

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We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.

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My main goal is to stay alive. To keep fooling myself into hanging around. To keep getting up every day. Right now I live without inspiration. I go day to day and do the work because it's all I know. I know that if I keep moving I stand a chance. I m...

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She is the gin. Cold, intoxicating. Gives you a rush, makes you warm inside, makes you lose your head. Take too much, it makes you sick and shuts you down. He is the coffee, hot, steaming, filtered. You have to add stuff to it to make it taste good. ...

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You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others.

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A rose trapped inside a fist.

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I see walking bombs on the street Hearts not beating, but ticking

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She lit my soul and inhaled deeply Flicking my ashes occasionally.

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I think to myself: I don't want to survive this one I want to burn up in the wreckage

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I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.

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The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.

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I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.

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It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you, becau...

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Love heals scars love left

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I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.

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When you're holding people's attention, I feel you must give them high-quality ingredients. They deserve nothing but your best. And if they need information, get it, cross-check it, and try to be right. Do not waste their time; do not enjoy the ego t...

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We humans are hard to deal with. We are a loud, complex and demanding bunch. Often, we are best dealt with from a safe distance and for only brief periods of time. This could be why a lot of marriages fail.

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I have always thought that change you can see and feel is best.

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If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and never, ever seek cure outside of more music. It really is the best drug available.

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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.'

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Author Bio

  • NameHenry Rollins
  • DescriptionAmerican singer-songwriter
  • BornFebruary 13, 1961
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger; Actor; Writer; Musician; Blogger; Songwriter; Human Rights Activist