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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Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.

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I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.

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I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back.

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I'm a good authoritarian figure; I don't know why. 'Can you be a cop?' Sure. 'Can you be a Marine?' Absolutely. Well, at least in a movie.

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I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.

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Music to me is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does.

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I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degr...

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Rush Limbaugh makes money getting simpleminded people to feel good about their intellectually undernourished brain spasms. He's very good at it, and I scarcely believe a fraction of what he says.

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With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.

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I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.

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I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.

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Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.

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Shirley Sherrod seems like a good and dedicated person.

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I have been listening to the Stooges' self-titled first album for well over half my life, and it remains one of the most exciting and essential records I have ever had the good fortune to come into contact with.

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I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.

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I was at the first Minor Threat show, and you could tell, 'This band is going to be the king of the town.' It was obvious. They were so good.

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Luckily for me, I genuinely like my audience. They really are a good bunch.

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I think Perry Ferrell put independent music on a very good path with Lollapalooza.

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The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture.

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In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.

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I plan to be a part of Haiti's reconstruction and future.

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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