Black Flag Quotes
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Love is self deception. I am a living creature. Hate is only self love. I am a double feature.
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Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.
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The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully.
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You want to meet a bunch of really friendly people? Go to a Slayer concert. There'll be some real psychos there, but most of those people will take care of each other.
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There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.
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Sometimes there's a vacuum that has to be covered.
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My work is more driven by the creative word. It's immersed in other writing and printed work, rather than drawn so much from life or past experience.
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South Sudan is one of the most hard-put places in the world.
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There's a lot of time when skaters think they know everything because they've seen videos of you, and seen you on TV or the internet, and there's ways of throwing jabs and being inconsiderate and not having your manners.
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Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound.
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Being in New York is an almost overwhelming experience. While Washington, D.C., is my favorite American city, I regard New York City as the most amazing city in the world. No other comes close. It is an incredible, inexhaustible engine.
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I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body - causing me injury or death - to be an assault weapon.
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More than 30 years ago, in Washington, D.C., I secured a copy of a single by a Los Angeles band called The Bags. The two-song 7-inch, released on Dangerhouse, had a girl on the cover who looked right at you with huge eyes. The songs, 'Survive' and 'Babylonian Gorgon,' were great and made many of my mix tapes.
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There are instances where lines in my work are borrowed or stolen from sources, mainly from books, or they become my own versions. A lot of the writing is my own, too. But if someone were to take each drawing and trace it back to its source, most of them could be traced back to a book or a text.
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I've been in Iraq, and it never occurred to me to go, 'Hey, this war is bogus,' to some guy who's 24 hours a day trying not to get shot at or blown up.
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If you don't use an image now you might have a place to put it in further down the line - and I have a lot of unfinished drawings.
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SST was formed to put out the first Black Flag record. Basically, there wasn't anyone else to do it. I felt that what I was doing with Black Flag was very worthwhile, and I wanted to get it out there.
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This sounds really corny, but I am a slave to my work, a workaholic, and glad of it. I like what I do; this is my place, my little universe, one of them.
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Some music really does suck!
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Young, gay and stuck in Arkansas? Sounds like a horror flick.
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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.
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If people are really excited about their music, and that's their primary motivation, then that comes through in demo tapes. That's the most important ingredient.
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I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip.
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The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short.