Song Quotes by Henry Rollins

Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician.

— Henry Rollins

Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.

— Henry Rollins

I don't cuss in songs. It's too easy.

— Henry Rollins

Will punk rock ever die? Pal, if you have to ask it's dead to you.

— Henry Rollins

Songs sung under duress are often very powerful.

— Henry Rollins

I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book.

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.

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

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A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere.

— Henry Rollins

When I write lyrics, it's only when I'm angry or hurt or sad. So lyrically it's never really easy going. And the…

— Henry Rollins

I feel close to people like Jimi Hendrix because I connect with his music. Not the man but what he did.

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In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song.

— Henry Rollins

The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of…

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Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business.

— Henry Rollins

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

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I'm a big fan of the American Tapes label. But that's very hard to keep a grip on that because you blink…

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There is a lot to say about what Bikini Kill and other 'riot grrrl' bands were able to achieve when they first…

— Henry Rollins

I get a lot of shit because I put "I" in the lyrics all the time. The "I" is always for someone…

— Henry Rollins

Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre…

— Henry Rollins

I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singing Black Sabbath…

— Henry Rollins

It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to talk about music,…

— Henry Rollins

While I have not ruled out the possibility of doing music, what I don't want to do is go onstage and perform…

— Henry Rollins

If you are a musician who has released albums, it would perhaps be morbidly interesting to know how much you would be…

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Everything I do, writing, touring, travelling, it all comes from the punk and hardcore attitude, from that expression - from being open…

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“Why is there so much meaningless, waste of time music out there these days? I'm no snob. I know I'm right about…

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Imagine someone so infatuated by a band that they have every different pressing of every album the band made. Most of the…

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To my ears, jazz sounds better in warm weather and after the sun has gone down. While I will listen to some…

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Punk-rock gave music back to people. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock…

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I think there will always be great new music and bands. As long as there's people around, there's going to be great…

— Henry Rollins

Youths write me and tell me that their band will go nowhere because of all the bad bands in the world. I…

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My mother, a very eclectic listener, had the first Doors album and gave it to me when I expressed interest in the…

— Henry Rollins

“Whenever I get dumped, I nail the door shut so that no one can come inside, get a towel and clip it…

— Henry Rollins

Live music is the cure for what ails ya.

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But can a song stop a war? If Bob Marley and Bob Dylan couldn't do it, it can't be done.

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I've never heard Daft Punk; I've never heard a track of theirs in my life. They're the two guys with motorcycle helmets…

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Bands have always written songs against what they see as wrong. Ronald Reagan really made for a lot of songs.

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

— Henry Rollins

The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short.

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I don't need music for the good times. I don't have that kind of need. Music doesn't serve me like that.

— Henry Rollins