Song Quotes by Henry Rollins

Songs sung under duress are often very powerful.

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— 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

Live music is the cure for what ails ya.

— Henry Rollins

Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

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

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

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

Whenever I write lyrics, in the back of my mind I always see a guy driving to work, driving to a really…

— Henry Rollins

I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space…

— Henry Rollins

Other music exists to heal wounds; but the tango when sung and played is for the purpose of opening them, for the…

— Henry Rollins

One of the nice things about a favorite pop song is that it's an unconditional truce on judgment and musical snobbery. You…

— Henry Rollins

The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can…

— Henry Rollins

“I was listening to the radio the other day in California and one of our songs came on and I jumped because…

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

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

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

— Henry Rollins

If a slave were to raise his voice to his master, he risked all manner of punishment. Yet what was possible in…

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— 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

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

— 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…

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— Henry Rollins

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

Music to me is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does.

— Henry Rollins

Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.

— Henry Rollins