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Henry Rollins Quotes - Page 4

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Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.

Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.

Would Be, Modern, Modern Music

Here you can be a billionaire, like Mark Zuckerberg rich, but you are going to die and you are here for a while and ultimately all of your stuff is kind of like a rental.

Zuckerberg, Stuff, Kind

Source: www.sinicalmagazine.com

After having read a lot of fiction, literature, whatever you want to call it, from Wolfe to Houellebecq, I think you have to have an understanding and insight of the human condition that is informed and motivated by a desire to immerse yourself in the human world and bring these stories to bear.

Thinking, Understanding, Desire

Source: paulsemel.com

People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.

Book, People, Records

Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.313, Villard

I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain and sadness. There are things that haunt us our entire lives; we are unable to let them go. The good times seem almost effervescent and dreamlike in comparison with the times that didn't go so well.

Pain, Sadness, Thinking

The easy solution isn't the solution, it's the problem.

Problem, Easy, Solutions

I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.

Book, Thinking, Doctrine

I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know.

Want, Natural, Disaster

I am always interested in an opportunity to learn something.

Opportunity, Opportunities To Learn

The more you own, the more it owns you.

Somewhere someone is thinking of you. Someone is calling you an angel. This person is using celestial colors to paint your image. Someone is making you into a vision so beautiful that it can only live in the mind.

Beautiful, Thinking Of You, Angel

People like Jefferson, Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and M. L. K. are larger than life to me. I find myself staring at photographs of Lincoln almost in disbelief that he was a man who walked the earth and not merely some fiction writer's creation.

Men, People, Fiction

When was the last time you wanted to say it all to the right person To have it all come out right, to surprise yourself at how together you could be. When was the last time you ever met someone who made you want to give it all to them I mean give yourself to them. Where you couldn't express yourself enough - like you wanted to cut off one of your arms to be understood. That's it - you would cut your head off to have someone understand you. You know how pointless that one is. You know how many times you've smashed yourself to bits on the rocks.

Mean, Cutting, Rocks

Henry Rollins (1992). “Black Coffee Blues”

Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold onto 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 because you think that your feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so small because it’s so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn’t come back. You’re left so alone that you can’t explain.

Thinking, Feelings, Trying

Henry Rollins (1997). “The First Five: Collected Work, 1983-1987”, 2 13 61

I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to eat, you really need some sleep. A few days later, things become strange. Loud noises become louder and more startling, familiar sounds become unfamiliar, and life reinvents itself as a surrealist dream.

Dream, Tired, Sleep

To my ears, jazz sounds better in warm weather and after the sun has gone down. While I will listen to some of my favorite jazz records in cooler weather, it's the warmer nights that really make them come alive. Something about those sounds and the heat of the night really makes it happen for me.

Night, Weather, Sound

Humans are pretty amazing at living pretty much anywhere and so that makes me optimistic that perhaps humanity will be able to survive itself, because the reality is that we are going to have problems with water in this century.

Optimistic, Reality, Water

Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

I'm trying to be confrontational and direct. If I lack directness then I only have myself to blame because I lack the skills to make my point clear.

Skills, Trying, Blame

I look at pictures of you because I am afraid that you would notice me staring in real life. I looked at your picture today for countless minutes. It is closer than I’ll ever get to you for real. I felt like I was looking at a captured animal at a safe distance. If you knew I was doing this, you would feel sickened and frightened. That’s why you’ll never know. Years will go by and you’ll never know. I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain.

Pain, Hate, Real

I don't try to be angry to prove something. I wouldn't try to intimidate you for any reason unless you were trying to intimidate me, and then I would show you that you can't do that to me.

Trying, Intimidating, Reason

Source: oustedproductions.net

The best revenge is to always survive yourself.

Revenge, Best Revenge, Retribution

Song: Alien Blueprint

They say true love only comes around once and you have to hold out and be strong until then. I have been waiting. I have been searching. I am a man under the moon, walking the streets of earth until dawn. There's got to be someone for me. It's not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.

Strong, Moon, Men

"Solipsist". Book by Henry Rollins, August 10, 1998.

It is impossible, after a certain point, to go back to a previous way of life, a previous way of thinking.

Thinking, Way, Impossible

I am a pretty crazy person, so it's best for me to be on my own most of the time.

Crazy, Crazy Person, Persons

Source: www.chicagotribune.com

The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.

Firsts, Albums, Rotten

Henry Rollins (1996). “Do I Come Here Often”, 2.13.61 Publications

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