The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Bands have always written songs against what they see as wrong. Ronald Reagan really made for a lot of songs. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, 'We were just on tour, and… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
As you do with any band you're in, you get to know everyone too well all too soon. When you're crammed into… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Too bad that Paul Ryan confessed to being a fan of Rage Against The Machine. By doing so, he not only begged… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
If you listen to the way I speak and watch the way I conduct myself - there's nothing about me that's rock… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Dinosaur Jr. in their live capacity are a band that put me in a state of such overwhelming rock that it often… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
When Black Flag and DOA and all those bands were touring in the early 80s, it was kind of a forest and… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Imagine someone so infatuated by a band that they have every different pressing of every album the band made. Most of the… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Punk-rock gave music back to people. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I'm always looking, people are always presenting and I have found that every year of my life there's been great bands. All… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
My mother, a very eclectic listener, had the first Doors album and gave it to me when I expressed interest in the… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Youths write me and tell me that their band will go nowhere because of all the bad bands in the world. I… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I don't need to have my convictions confirmed by a show of numbers. However, being among people in front of a band… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
More than 30 years ago, in Washington, D.C., I secured a copy of a single by a Los Angeles band called The… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When a band becomes as truly iconic as the Velvet Underground, there will often be a box set released, overburdened with mediocre… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
If some band sucks, you're going to have to find out about it for yourself, because I don't have the interest in… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Trying to write music, be in a band and keep it all happening is one of the hardest, morale-destroying, heartbreaking things you… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I was at the first Minor Threat show, and you could tell, 'This band is going to be the king of the… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I think that one of the hardest things in the world to be is a black male. I mean everyone hates your guts. White… — Henry Rollins Copy Share
In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record. — Henry Rollins Copy Share
We spend millions of dollars to remove pain from our lives. It's why so many people get hooked on painkillers. The body becomes addicted… — Henry Rollins Copy Share
There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's. — Henry Rollins Copy Share
If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will… — Henry Rollins Copy Share
I was raised in Washington, DC, very violent place. I grew up with violence. My introduction to music was violent. The years I've spent… — Henry Rollins Copy Share
I feel pain everyday of my life. When you see me perform, it's that pain you're seeing coming out. I put all my emotions,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share
I feel close to people like Jimi Hendrix because I connect with his music. Not the man but what he did. — Henry Rollins Copy Share
I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon… — Henry Rollins Copy Share
I was never told to "Get up, get out there, get a job." It was never a thing either parent ever said I had… — Henry Rollins Copy Share
There's no retirement, there's just a few years of non-work by the fire with someone bringing you some tea and relative peace and playing… — Henry Rollins Copy Share
![“Punk-rock gave music back to people. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16 and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that. Me and [Minor Threat and Fugazi vocalist] Ian MacKaye would go…” quote by Henry Rollins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e3/henry-rollins-170_arena_punk-rock-gave-music-back-to-people-for_1340442.png)
