Henry Rollins

Musician, Writer, Actor

Henry Rollins is a multifaceted artist known for his spoken word performances and punk rock roots, exploring themes of resilience and truth.

Born
February 13, 1961
Quotes
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Rank
#458

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"I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless."

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"I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life."

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"I think Perry Ferrell put independent music on a very good path with Lollapalooza."

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"I think more airtime should be given to Donald Trump and Orly Taitz. They should run for office together. They should open for Charlie Sheen."

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"I never had any interest in being involved with the Boy Scouts."

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"I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip."

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

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"I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history."

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"Fish is the only kind of respirating thing that I consume. Everything else I don't want any part of."

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"I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two."

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"I hate painting with a broad brush, but I think the birther thing, at its root, is racist. The guy was born in Hawaii. A black guy is president. It's cool. Get over it. Just deal with it. There's nothing you could show these birther people that would shut them up."

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"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 to have my convictions confirmed by a show of numbers. However, being among people in front of a band leads me to believe that all is not lost, that humans, now and then, can communicate on a higher level than the political and the practical."

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"I don't believe it mattered to Timothy McVeigh who was president or who his congressional representative was when he blew up the Murrah Building in 1995."

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"Every politician, every president gets votes by getting people that don't like him to like him. That's why politicians are slippery: because they talk out of both sides of their mouth."

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"Enough Americans saw fit to give president Obama a second term. I don't think there will be many people keeping their Romney/Ryan bumper stickers on their cars."

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"As the middle class is predated upon with an ever greater malicious intensity, their children stand to lose more and harder than their parents ever did."

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"I have lived in public as a somewhat recognizable person since I was a teenager. Emails I answer end up posted on sites; pictures of me and someone I just met, taken by a cellphone, literally number in the thousands and are easily accessed."

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"Juan Williams is a very sharp guy."

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