A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
But can a song stop a war? If Bob Marley and Bob Dylan couldn't do it, it can't be done. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Sitting in a room, alone, listening to a CD is to be lonely. Sitting in a room alone with an LP crackling… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and never, ever seek cure… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing back. He's sticking it to the… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Black Sabbath - one of the world's universal language of music. I felt proud, for three or four minutes of my life… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you meet a musician you are a fan of, and he or she isn't the friendliest person, you walk away… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I do a lot of stuff for free anyway. Like a lot of people who you see who don't need money. Mick… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
To my ears, jazz sounds better in warm weather and after the sun has gone down. While I will listen to some… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
'SMiLE' is perhaps the Beach Boys' most legendary album. It was recorded in 1966 and 1967 but only saw a formal release… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singing Black Sabbath… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I get a lot of shit because I put "I" in the lyrics all the time. The "I" is always for someone… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of the American Tapes label. But that's very hard to keep a grip on that because you blink… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
There is a lot to say about what Bikini Kill and other 'riot grrrl' bands were able to achieve when they first… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Between the Dinosaur Jr. albums and his recent solo albums, 'Several Shades of Why' and 'Heavy Blanket,' J Mascis is emerging as… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing it, and the… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Other music exists to heal wounds; but the tango when sung and played is for the purpose of opening them, for the… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Whenever I write lyrics, in the back of my mind I always see a guy driving to work, driving to a really… — 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
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
If you are a musician who has released albums, it would perhaps be morbidly interesting to know how much you would be… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“I was listening to the radio the other day in California and one of our songs came on and I jumped because… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
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 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 Image
In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
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 Image
There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
