Quote

I'm not trying to amass people in the streets. I just want them to be more aware.

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
Streets
Trying
People
Amass
Aware

More quotes by Henry Rollins

Image
We city dwellers, we residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, are for the most part urbanized to some extent. We know deadlines, start times and traffic.
Henry Rollins
Image
My love runs deeper than the wounds.
Henry Rollins
Image
Florida is a crazy place, and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here.
Henry Rollins
Image
I want my fellow citizens to wise up and stop falling for [war]. I try with my limited access, I'm not getting into Kabul with a camera, they're not letting me get into Benghazi with a camera. I do what I can with my flimsy American passport and a visa. The photos are a bit more heavy from Southern Sudan and Haiti and Cuba.
Henry Rollins
Image
I don't try to be angry to prove something. I wouldn't try to intimidate you for any reason unless you were trying to intimidate me, and then I would show you that you can't do that to me.
Henry Rollins
Image
We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head down a very bad, dark trail to where a lot of people aren't going to make it.
Henry Rollins
Image
For the last 30-plus years, I have been doing one long, uninterrupted improv.
Henry Rollins
Image
In the city of Pyongyang, you don't have to look very far to see an image of the Great Leader, Kim Il Sung. They love the guy. He is responsible for the wonder that is North Korea.
Henry Rollins
Image
I don't have a crystal ball, but I'm willing to bet one of my arms right now that as long as there's electricity, Ramones music is going to be relevant.
Henry Rollins
Image
Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.
Henry Rollins
Image
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.
Henry Rollins
Image
I think there is something very interesting about people who live day to day in an environment where they could get taken out by a wild animal. There has to be some kind respect that is derived from that relationship.
Henry Rollins
Image
Do you know why Albert Camus was so prolific? He wrote to keep from screaming.
Henry Rollins
Image
A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere.
Henry Rollins
Image
The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.
Henry Rollins
Image
All I can do is just do stuff while I am alive and hopefully that track record will speak for itself.
Henry Rollins
Image
Contemporary bands often will do tour-only releases pressed and sold only in Australia. Crikey!
Henry Rollins
Image
Hopefully, one enhances [when growing older] his sense of humor. As he approaches 50, he'll need all the humor he can get.
Henry Rollins
Image
If you're crazy enough to put your hat into the ring of speculation and punditry, you're going to get some turbulence. But if it's coming from some journalist with a comfortable degree of body fat, I'm not losing any sleep over it.
Henry Rollins
Image
I believe in North, South, East, West, The seasons, life and death, geography. That which is provable, absolute and most of all, functional. I believe in things that can kill me.
Henry Rollins