Henry Rollins Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• I beg young people to travel. If you don't have a passport, get one.........the re are lessons that you can't get out of a book that are waiting for you at the other end of that flight. A lot of people - Americans and Europeans - come back and go, "ohhhhh." And the lightbulb goes on.

  Henry Rollins

  Book, People, Waiting

• People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.

  Henry Rollins

  Book, People, Records

  Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.313, Villard

• Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me.

  Henry Rollins

  Book, Mean, Mileage

• I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book.

  Henry Rollins

  Song, Book, Ideas

• I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail.

  Henry Rollins

  Book, Band, Stuff

  "Henry Rollins: 'I get angry about stuff'". Interview with David E. Williams, www.cnn.com. April 6, 2006.

• My mother taught me how to read very early on and at school I was ahead of everyone in class... Reading was always something that I liked because I could do it alone and I was alone a lot of the time with my mother working the hours she did. Books became my friends very early on.

  Henry Rollins

  Mother, Book, Reading

  "#tbt An Interview with Henry Rollins". Interview with Eric Stein, www.brothersdepaul.com. January 7, 2015.

• The fact is that I am always thinking of something to build. A new book, radio show, plans for a trip somewhere. I am not a very happy person but I feel pretty even when I am working, so I guess that is how I am wired.

  Henry Rollins

  Book, Thinking, Radio

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• Not that the writers weren't good. I believe in those books and those writers very much. It's just that in the climate it's really hard to keep the lights on and the doors open when you're selling poetry and literature that appeals to a fringe audience.

  Henry Rollins

  Believe, Book, Light

  Source: w3.fiu.edu

• That's the only interaction I have with people, those talking shows. Most of the people in my phone book are artists, management, producers, engineers. I don't ever call people with, "Hi! How are you?" I say, "How are you? Do you have that 16/30 ready? When do you want me to come into the studio?" That's what I do.

  Henry Rollins

  Book, Artist, Phones

  Source: oustedproductions.net

• I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go.

  Henry Rollins

  Book, Want, Documentaries

  Source: eluxemagazine.com

• I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.

  Henry Rollins

  Book, Making Money, Fame

• Everyone should have the right to go off and do their music or do their books. The people who are in the position to censor they're really not down to reality where that certain artists are coming from.

  Henry Rollins

  Book, Artist, Reality

  Source: www.theroc.org

• I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.

  Henry Rollins

  Book, Thinking, Doctrine

• All my big heroes are literary, writers. I'd love to meet Jimmy Hendrix or John Coltrane, but I'd much rather meet Thomas Wolfe, or F. Scott Fitzgerald. Words and books have always meant a lot to me. That someone can take words and string them together to where they will move me is just a hell of a thing. It's amazing to me; more amazing to me than music or painting. It's always been the written word or the spoken word, like a great lecture or a great lyric, or a great poem. To me it's just amazing. And I always aspire toward capturing that, or my version of it.

  Henry Rollins

  Moving, Book, Hero

  "Henry Rollins: Post-Punk Pundit". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. July 25, 2007.

• 'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit.

  Henry Rollins

  Book, Seems

• As far as poetry, I don't know if I've ever written any. I've read a lot. I just write and it comes out in different forms and shapes. I don't know if I'm any good at it I just really go for it and I'm very prolific book wise only because I own the company. No one tells me 'no' around here.

  Henry Rollins

  Wise, Book, Writing

• With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book.

  Henry Rollins

  Book, Naked, Volume

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