Henry Rollins Quotes

But can a song stop a war? If Bob Marley and Bob Dylan couldn't do it, it can't be done.

The music industry has been hijacked by corporate interests, but the way music affects people and resonates with them hasn't changed.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

My father's music gives hope to people and also inspires them to break the bonds of injustice and to be positive in life. I've seen that everywhere I go, especially in poor countries and poor neighborhoods.

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.

If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.

Music used to change people's minds - and it still changes mine.

I believe in music because it has the power of change.

In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were songs about the civil rights movement, the women's rights movement, the antiwar movement. It wasn't just Bob Dylan, it was everybody at the time.

I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

Bob Dylan was more important for my political orientation than Karl Marx.

I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of the people.

You're living in a fantasy to think that music can actually change something.

Music has always been my first love, and I appreciate how a great musician can bring awareness to tough issues through their work.

Once you see how powerful music is and how it can affect people, then you want to use it to impact the world.

Of course our music has a lot of positive messages and we try to reach out to kids our age or people younger because we feel we get motivation by songs.

As much as you act like everything is programmed or calculated or researched or numbers, spins, radio, and clubs, it's still human beings out here you can reach with music.

Such times of crisis have inevitably brought 'music of conscience' to the fore and I expect we will be hearing more and more of it in the immediate future. When people feel empowered to come together and raise their voices, also will mean raising their voices in song as well.

Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement.

Sexual intercourse began in 1963 ... / Between the end of the Chatterley ban/ and the Beatles first LP

The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.

A good song reminds us what we're fighting for.

A Resource-Based Economy is in the application of the methods of science with human concern and environmental concern. If we used the scientific method throughout the world, the probability of war drops to zero. The probability of human suffering disappears. Deprivation, poverty, crime - all those things tend to disappear because there's no basis. I'm strictly concerned with the environment that people are raised in and if that environment is altered, so will behaviors be altered.

One song isn't going to ever change things, but I suppose it's the accumulation of music generally [that is]. If you can imagine a world that has no music in it, it would be a very different world, so music does change the world by virtue of all the music in it. Cumulative music of every kind, from banging a drum to playing a flute or recording symphonies, or singing 'War, what is it good for?' All those things change the whole way we live.

One night I was sitting listening to some Hank Williams songs - and they'll change your life in a hurry.