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Henry Rollins Quotes - Page 24

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One of the most insane environments I have ever spent time in is a gun range. There we are, all in a line, armed to the teeth, firing away.

One of the most insane environments I have ever spent time in is a gun range. There we are, all in a line, armed to the teeth, firing away.

Gun, Insane, Lines

Music files and downloading have indeed changed the currency of music to a great degree.

Degrees, Currency, Changed

So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life.

Real, Home, Airplane

For me, returning to Los Angeles annihilates the memories of where I have just been with an astonishing speed.

Memories, Speed, Los Angeles

If some band sucks, you're going to have to find out about it for yourself, because I don't have the interest in issuing warnings.

Band, Warning, Interest

I used to sit on the roof of the apartment where Jim Morrison used to write his early lyrics

Writing, Used, Roof

He said that hate makes the world go round People are afraid of what they really want They make enemies of all the things that they would like to be They condition themselves to not embrace what they are Love is a clinging nausea I tried to disagree with him It was no use I never saw a more honest look in anyone's eyes.

Hate, Eye, Love Is

A rose trapped inside a fist.

Rose, Fists, Trapped

Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.269, Villard

Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

Rocks, Anything And Everything, Punk

"What is Punk?" by Henry Rollins, bigthink.com. 2017.

I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.

Party, Talking, Drug

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool.

Couple, Thinking, Guy

The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully.

Effort, Trying, Months

I wonder if the guy at the gun store would give me a discount on the bullets I'll need if I told him what I was up to.

Gun, Giving, Guy

Henry Rollins (1996). “Eye Scream”, 2 13 61

Don't let despair mutate your flesh Look at my twisted stumps of thought See the fingers, listen to the voice I am slowly becoming the end of the line.

Voice, Despair, Looks

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

Ambitious, Realization, Very Good

"HENRY ROLLINS: 'I Like Stress; It Keeps Me Rockin''". "Full Metal Jackie" with Jackie Kajzer, www.blabbermouth.net. December 30, 2012.

We came to the end, we found nothing. Nothing!!! And we cursed because we were hoping for so much less.

Ends, Found, Cursed

Henry Rollins (1990). “High Adventure in the Great Outdoors”, 2 13 61

I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.

Birthday, Creativity, Past

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Life forgets me but will not let me forget Holds me down and tells me that I'm free.

Down And, Forget, Hold Me

The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me.

Ideas, Type, Performers

I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.

Mean, Artist, People

I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran.

Iran, People, Interviews

If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back.

Thinking, Mosquitoes, Lines

Being in New York is an almost overwhelming experience. While Washington, D.C., is my favorite American city, I regard New York City as the most amazing city in the world. No other comes close. It is an incredible, inexhaustible engine.

New York, Cities, World

I'm actually on the Twitter like all those crazy young kids are, and if I'm going to do an in-store appearance or I post something on my website, I tweet these followers, a word I don't like so much, and over 50,000 people go, like, 'Okay, I got it.'

Crazy, Kids, People

Marriage equality is a term so ridiculous on its face that when you hear it mentioned, you would think you were in Riyadh. Years from now, perhaps we can lose the equality part, the same-sex part and call it what it is - marriage.

Sex, Thinking, Years

"Henry Rollins: Gay Marriage Is Punk Rock" by Henry Rollins, www.laweekly.com. December 20, 2012.

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