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Henry Rollins Quotes - Page 9

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I like people. Rightwingers don't. They like business, they don't care about people. I like education, they seem not to care much about it.

I like people. Rightwingers don't. They like business, they don't care about people. I like education, they seem not to care much about it.

People, Care, Don't Care

Source: www.guernicamag.com

As far as what people think of me, maybe my stuff should just be put online for free downloads when I'm gone.

Thinking, People, Gone

Source: www.guernicamag.com

I'm just shallow and self-interested, and don't get out much because I'm afraid of real commitments.

Real, Commitment, Self

Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten, and Ian MacKaye were all people who really made me see things differently.

People, Rotten, Johnny Rotten

Source: www.guernicamag.com

When you're very young, images that you upload into your very young mind tend to stay with you.

Mind, Young Minds, Young

"Henry Rollins and a Whole Lot of Snakes". Interview with Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. April 29, 2011.

If it were a choice between me getting killed or one of my friend's kids, I would happily take the shot.

Kids, Choices, Shots

Source: eluxemagazine.com

I like how I write better than how I speak.

Writing, Speak

Source: paulsemel.com

The streets lie, the sidewalks lie, everything lies You can try and read it but you're gonna get it wrong...all wrong The summer evenings burn and melt and the nights glitter but you're gonna get it wrong And it's gonna sink its teeth into your flesh and pull you to the bottom.

Summer, Lying, Night

I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go.

Travel, World, Want

If people are being upstanding citizens of the Republic, then you have to widen the net to incarcerate them. This explains why America's prisons are full of nonviolent offenders - a perfect example of American exceptionalism.

America, People, Perfect

As a young person, I wanted everyone to agree with me.

Young, Wanted, Agree

Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound.

Song, Sound, World

Without an education, you won't have a future.

"Henry Rollins: Education is the End of Disaster Capitalism". 2017.

I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.

Love Is, Stories, Telling Stories

This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles.

Hair, Rocks, Mind

Kids need parents who love and support them unconditionally, full stop.

Kids, Support, Parent

Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre for its intensity, extremism and underlying irony: You have to be alive to play it and listen to it.

Play, White, Hair

'SMiLE' is perhaps the Beach Boys' most legendary album. It was recorded in 1966 and 1967 but only saw a formal release in 2011. That's a long time to wait for what was said to be Brian Wilson's masterpiece.

Beach, Boys, Long

One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise.

Noise, Unendurable, Music Is

Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing it, and the great effort of those who created and recorded the work is damaged.

Song, Effort, Joy

My mother, a very eclectic listener, had the first Doors album and gave it to me when I expressed interest in the band. It was one of the first records I ever had. As the years passed, the babysitters who used to look after me would bring their Doors albums to the apartment, and that's how I got to hear their later work.

Mother, Doors, Years

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

College, Hands, Water

There's always going to be a need for activism; there's always going to be a need for you and me doing the right thing, being very Lincoln-sonian in looking out for each other.

Needs, Activism, Doing The Right Thing

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

I have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll.

Rocks, Champion, Heavyweights

I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much.

Firsts, Censorship, First Amendment

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