1,228 Quotes by Henry Rollins

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    In blues music, there’s a lot of borrowing, so it’s often difficult to identify the originator of a song.

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    I think it’s important to have some documentation of the past.

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    I plan to be a part of Haiti’s reconstruction and future.

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    If you listen to ‘The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,’ by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is dripping with rage.

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    You can’t right the wrongs because you’ll never understand the cause and you’ll be too busy dodging the effect.

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    I am primarily a loner. I don’t go to clubs. I don’t hang out with people. I don’t know many people. It’s just the way it ended up. It’s not a sob story; it’s fine for me.

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    Someone like Ashlee Simpson, she lip-synchs on ‘Saturday Night Live,’ gets totally called out la Milli Vanilli, and no one really cares that much. It doesn’t make me hate Ashlee; she’s just taking instructions.

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    Black Sabbath – one of the world’s universal language of music. I felt proud, for three or four minutes of my life combining my voice with Tony Iommi’s guitar sound.

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    If there is one set of laws, one Constitution for every citizen, its protections hopefully applied equally to all, then why do the results seem to differ so radically? What do you call that? Look around – you’re living in it.

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