I am always interested in an opportunity to learn something. Henry Rollins More Quotes by Henry Rollins More Quotes From Henry Rollins When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break. Henry Rollins chips make-or-break people In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record. Henry Rollins usa summer america If a slave were to raise his voice to his master, he risked all manner of punishment. Yet what was possible in many circumstances was to lift one's voice in song. This was a major ingredient in what is now known as blues and gospel. Slaves may have been regarded as subhuman by their cruel captors, but through music, they were proud and dignified. Henry Rollins punishment voice song I think more tolerance, more people having more access to a chance to be literate, and a chance to stay healthy makes for a more peaceful planet. Henry Rollins healthy people thinking Some music really does suck! Henry Rollins doe Now, if someone wants to spit on me, I just roll up the window of my BMW 540i. Henry Rollins spit-up bmw want But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work. Henry Rollins good-life married enjoy Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches. Henry Rollins faces people firsts 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. Henry Rollins guitar black voice The scars will take me far, they always do. Henry Rollins take-me scar 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 crystals balls long Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting each other, digging new types of music, new foods, new ideas. You want to stop having so many wars? This could be a step in the right direction. Henry Rollins cities war years I think it is incumbent on anyone who can to lift human dignity to the highest possible levels, maintaining one's own and helping to raise that of others. Henry Rollins maintaining levels thinking 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 oil dark people I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend. Henry Rollins responsibility teacher thinking Mr. Christ, I read you as an infinitely patient entity who, as they say, often works in mysterious ways, a rebel unafraid to take the tougher, less traveled paths. Seems to me you're playing the long game. Is that why more states are coming out in favor of marriage equality? Is that why the Affordable Care Act is now with us? Henry Rollins care games long There's always going to be a need for activism; there's always going to be a need for you and me doing the right thing, being very Lincoln-sonian in looking out for each other. Henry Rollins doing-the-right-thing activism needs I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much. Henry Rollins first-amendment censorship firsts Guns are part of the American identity. Henry Rollins american-identity gun identity August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer. Henry Rollins august summer spring