Henry Rollins Quotes

Iggy Pop is God, if God looked half that good with his shirt off.

Man, I'm the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix.

Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there's been an Axl Rose. And it's just boring. It's totally boring to me.

Chuck Berry invented rock 'n' roll. He was one of the best songwriters of the 20th century.

It doesn't matter how many times I've played 'Brown Sugar', I never get tired of playing it.

Neil Young is the prime example, the grand goal, if you will. He's still shredding, and he never lost his credibility.

Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.

At heart I cannot accept that I am a well-known rock 'n' roll star and one of the greatest drummers in the world.

Mick Jagger can't even make a successful solo album, and the Stones are the biggest rock group that ever was.

I don't care what anybody says about Ringo. I cut my rock-n-roll teeth listening to him.

Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

I want to play Keith Richards.

Lemmy Kilmeister is most certainly a rocker.

It was Stevie Nicks who made the biggest impression and really resonated with me. I found her intriguing and liked her voice. Her songs were kind of mysterious, and she was a woman in a rock band.

My first impression of Van Halen was that David Lee Roth was a god, and that so was Eddie.

It was when I saw Iggy Pop, that's what did it for me. That changed my life pretty much.

In 1952, Muddy cut the song 'Rollin' Stone.' It was a nationwide success, and the song echoes down through rock n' roll history. Bob Dylan cut a tribute by the same name, an English band decided to call themselves the Rolling Stones, and the magazine that first embraced music as a serious cultural phenomenon was itself called 'Rolling Stone.'

I think my legacy should be that when I started in show business, there wasn't no such thing as rock n' roll. When I started with 'Tutti Frutti,' that's when rock really started rocking.

I remember Iggy and the Stooges' song 'Search and Destroy' reaching out from my speakers to me like my own personal anthem.

I've always liked Tina Turner.

My personal favourite is Jeff Beck. All the others are wonderful as well.

The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage to meet George Harrison. I was simply awestruck.

Well, I don't like the word 'rock star,' the two words, 'rock star.' Not even 'soft rock star. Not even limestone star. I don't like those words.

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.

If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.