Henry Rollins Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• They say true love only comes around once and you have to hold out and be strong until then. I have been waiting. I have been searching. I am a man under the moon, walking the streets of earth until dawn. There's got to be someone for me. It's not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.

  Henry Rollins

  Strong, Moon, Men

  "Solipsist". Book by Henry Rollins, August 10, 1998.

• Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

  Henry Rollins

  Art, Giving, Feelings

• I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.

  Henry Rollins

  Artist, Giving, Roles

• The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.

  Henry Rollins

  Giving, Scarcity, Strange

• There’s got to be someone for me. It’s not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.

  Henry Rollins

  Giving, Too Much, Love Someone

  "Solipsist". Book by Henry Rollins, 1998.

• People have become separated from their bodies. They are no longer whole. I see them move from their offices to their cars and on to their suburban homes. They stress out constantly, they lose sleep, they eat badly. And they behave badly. Their egos run wild; they become motivated by that which will eventually give them a massive stroke. They need the Iron Mind.

  Henry Rollins

  Running, Stress, Moving

• Keep me preoccupied Keep me busy, busy, busy So I won't have to think I don't want to think Because it only brings me pain I just keep running away from My problems Keep me busy Give me a million things to do So I can keep running away from myself.

  Henry Rollins

  Running, Pain, Thinking

  Henry Rollins (1990). “High Adventure in the Great Outdoors”, 2 13 61

• Help me to withstand your beauty as it stands out of reach. Give me the capacity to forget ever having felt your touch.

  Henry Rollins

  Giving, Helping, Forget

• 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.

  Henry Rollins

  Giving, Skins, Smooth Skin

• Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.

  Henry Rollins

  Giving, Giving It All, Performances

• To burn a CDR of music you like to give as a gift to someone you wish to become closer to is a cold, moist-palmed, mouth-breathing bummer.

  Henry Rollins

  Breathing, Giving, Wish

• When was the last time you wanted to say it all to the right person To have it all come out right, to surprise yourself at how together you could be. When was the last time you ever met someone who made you want to give it all to them I mean give yourself to them. Where you couldn't express yourself enough - like you wanted to cut off one of your arms to be understood. That's it - you would cut your head off to have someone understand you. You know how pointless that one is. You know how many times you've smashed yourself to bits on the rocks.

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  Mean, Cutting, Rocks

  Henry Rollins (1992). “Black Coffee Blues”

• To our enemies all over the world who plan America's demise, please take my advice. Give up now. No matter what, you will lose. You will lose it all.

  Henry Rollins

  Giving Up, America, Advice

• I'm not like paparazzi. I never force myself on anyone. I always ask, and some places offer money. And so I try and get these photos to give you, the viewer, a real look at what I was seeing.

  Henry Rollins

  Real, Giving, Trying

  "The Patch Interview: Punk Icon and Author Henry Rollins". Interview with Robert K. Elder, patch.com. October 17, 2011.

• I'm of the opinion that the Democrats have the ideas I agree with more often than not. Reenergizing the middle class and giving people a break.

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  Class, Ideas, People

• I wonder if the guy at the gun store would give me a discount on the bullets I'll need if I told him what I was up to.

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  Gun, Giving, Guy

  Henry Rollins (1996). “Eye Scream”, 2 13 61

• Enough Americans saw fit to give president Obama a second term. I don't think there will be many people keeping their Romney/Ryan bumper stickers on their cars.

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  Thinking, People, Giving

• Hating someone is giving them too much, just leave them alone.

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  Hate, Giving, Too Much

• So many Americans, for one reason or another, they watch the news and it doesn't really give them the idea of the world. Or they don't read or travel. They have no idea that America is part of the world and not the world itself.

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  Ideas, America, Giving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• I am not immune to the lure of a signed record, flier or set list. The fact that your music heroes potentially had, in their own hands, the record you now have in yours is kind of cool. When the musician has departed, it can give the thing a unique power.

  Henry Rollins

  Hero, Unique, Hands

• I'm not trying to amass people in the streets. I just want them to be more aware. So many Americans, for one reason or another, they watch the news and it doesn't really give them the idea of the world. Or they don't read or travel. They have no idea that America is part of the world and not the world itself. And so anything from the travel stories I tell, that's what I'm trying to get across.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Giving, Trying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• I have a lot of compact discs. I need them for radio play and convenience. Many bands and artists I am a fan of don't always release their work on vinyl, so I take what they feel like giving me.

  Henry Rollins

  Artist, Play, Giving

• When you're holding people's attention, I feel you must give them high-quality ingredients. They deserve nothing but your best. And if they need information, get it, cross-check it, and try to be right. Do not waste their time; do not enjoy the ego trip of being onstage.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Giving, Ego

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