Henry Rollins Quotes

I think it's healthy for bands to discover new, older stuff.

My musical tastes - I'm always searching for new things. I know a lot of people say they listen to everything, but I kind of do.

You can never stop discovering music.

It's not very often that I like new bands.

I've become kind of a haven for people who like pop music, but that's not the only thing they like. They also like music in general and want to be able to expand their own horizons. They haven't completely given up on music and are willing to have somebody mediate new things that are happening in music to them.

Everything was so fresh and unique to us - it was a whole new world of music. Michael Jackson was so fresh, you know? We could approach it with such fresh ears, which wouldn't be possible if we had been listening to it when we were younger.

It's never too late to do anything new when it comes to music.

I just wanna make more music, legit music as opposed to keeping the same constant thing. I wanna show growth in the music, pretty much.

I really like coming across all types of different music, and hearing new things.

I always try to go where the excitement is, where the best music is. I don't care what kind of music it is. I go with the best artist we can find.

I love heavy music, but you see, I had fallen in love with a radio station in Vegas that played nothing but Eighties music. That had a real profound impact on me.

Young fans want to know about the past and older fans also want to find new music.

We could play them through the week, and then the weekend we could play the black joints. I learned to be very versatile and learned to love it. So it stays with me even up to now.

When I came across something I liked, I wanted to find out as much as I could about it. This was as true of hearing Hoagy Carmichael for the first time as it was later when I first heard Boulez.

I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

I'm very bad with music. I don't know any new music. I've listened to the same 10 or 12 albums my whole life.

I think there is great interest amongst the younger people in this music. I think that there is a lot of them that are looking for interesting situations and music that is stimulating.

I'm always searching for new music, and I change what I listen to on a regular basis.

Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is limitation at its worst. Music is huge; it's a gigantic history lesson, and if you are true music fan or a musician, you should explore it. It's all right there in front of us.

I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys.

I'm a real music fan, so I listen to all kinds of music all the time. I listen to a lot of what my friends or people I know are listening to. I'm always checking out new bands.

Me and Jerry left because we felt we weren't getting anywhere playing our old songs in tiny clubs. The group was getting stale and staying behind the times.

When I first started playing music in 1955, there was just a small body of people that knew it. It was a very esoteric type of thing.

I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.

I love listening to new stuff, at home in LA I always have the radio on to hear what is happening.