Quote

I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us.

Henry Rollins

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
Actor
Blogger
Film Actor
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Musician
Peace Activist
Poet
Radio Personality
Recording Artist
Screenwriter
Washington
District of Columbia
Henry Garfield
Like
Realizing
Venues
Stage
Oxygen
Anything
Struck
Firsts
Note
First
Onto
Enough
Experienced
Going
Notes
Never
Walking
Venue

More quotes by Henry Rollins

Image
One of the nice things about a favorite pop song is that it's an unconditional truce on judgment and musical snobbery. You like the song because you just do, and there need not be any further criticism.
Henry Rollins
Image
I never think of what it's going to be like later. I only think in the present tense. The only time I think backwards is when I have to reissue something.
Henry Rollins
Image
It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
Henry Rollins
Image
Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.
Henry Rollins
Image
When I was a kid looking at pictures of the Sphynx, and the Pyramids, and different tribes in Africa, all of that stuck with me, and I always wanted to see those things and meet those people.
Henry Rollins
Image
August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame. That, coupled with the oppressive heat and humidity of my native Washington, D.C., only seemed to heighten the misery.
Henry Rollins
Image
Help me to withstand your beauty as it stands out of reach. Give me the capacity to forget ever having felt your touch.
Henry Rollins
Image
I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.
Henry Rollins
Image
I am afforded a bit of easy wonderment in relative comfort as to how humans have lasted so long. Climate- and geography-wise, the planet seems to have little use for us.
Henry Rollins
Image
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
Image
Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.
Henry Rollins
Image
While I have not ruled out the possibility of doing music, what I don't want to do is go onstage and perform old songs. I do, all the time, but I don't think it is artistically brave.
Henry Rollins
Image
I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.
Henry Rollins
Image
I can die anytime I want. I wish I could do the same with life.
Henry Rollins
Image
If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.
Henry Rollins
Image
When I'm off the road, and I can really control my diet down to the calorie, I juice seven days a week. Every afternoon, whatever I have at hand, beets, carrots, ginger, whatever. I juice, literally, every single day. And on the road, I try to find fresh juice wherever I can.
Henry Rollins
Image
I live my life through the prism of capitalism and physiological limits and eventualities. In all of that, there is no spirituality required. No God and karma is needed for the numbers. I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist.
Henry Rollins
Image
Is it a shame that I can’t accept love? Am I too burned out to move towards what will keep me alive or too smart to get pulled into someone else’s world?
Henry Rollins
Image
The more you own, the more it owns you.
Henry Rollins
Image
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.
Henry Rollins