1,228 Quotes by Henry Rollins

Don’t push me I’ve got a corner at my back I’ve nowhere to go except over you.

It’ll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself.

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

The Internet, the camera cellphone and the like have not only sped up the world’s information uptake, but they have cheapened that which they capture.

I don’t want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride.

I don’t cuss in songs. It’s too easy.

I don’t want to go with the smooth skin and the calm brow. I hope I end up a blithering idiot cursing the sun – hallucinating, screaming, giving obscene and inane lectures on street corners and public parks.

I’ve made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.

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.