Black Flag Quotes
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One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You can find it all over the world happening in basements, small venues and even some festivals. Often blown off or belittled by critics, the form for the most part goes unheard and unnoticed.
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You have to get away from them. You have to get as far away as you can otherwise they'll kill you with their lives. They don't know what they do. They are careless with themselves and they take too much for granted. They make their shortcomings your problem. The only way to keep your head above it and heal your wounds is to crawl away.
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To combat the confusion and depression that assault me when I come off the road in the middle of a tour, I seek the most oblivionated music possible. When it's the 'way out there' that I seek, I go right to my stash of amazing music from Japan.
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When you hear about what someone else is going through, and you are unable to distance yourself from it or in any way muzzle your empathy and are inspired to actually do something, these are moments to learn from.
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I try to get myself up and moving as early as possible. Optimum is to be on the treadmill while it is still dark outside.
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Sometimes there's a vacuum that has to be covered.
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If I was gay, there would be no closet. You would never see the closet I came out of. Why? Because I'd have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve... If I was gay, at this stage of the game?age 37, aging alternative icon?I'd be taking out ads.
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I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.
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I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless.
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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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Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten, and Ian MacKaye were all people who really made me see things differently.
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I believe that capitalism, at least how it's used by major corporations, and environmental concerns are in opposition. To be ecologically aware, productivity of many things would slow down at least for awhile. Stockholders don't want to hear about the saving of the whales or some stream in Kentucky. They want a return on their investment.
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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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But can a song stop a war? If Bob Marley and Bob Dylan couldn't do it, it can't be done.
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Don't let despair mutate your flesh Look at my twisted stumps of thought See the fingers, listen to the voice I am slowly becoming the end of the line.
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All my big heroes are literary, writers.
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It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they will ever be gone.
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Thank you for touching me. Some of the only moments worth living were spent with you. Not you especially, the collective you.
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I don't think you'll ever have a perfect world because we humans are prone to error, and so we're always in search of an upgrade.
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I don't have a crystal ball, but I'm willing to bet one of my arms right now that as long as there's electricity, Ramones music is going to be relevant.
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Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician.
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Too sick and freaked out not to want a bullet for every passer by, too sick and freaked out to breathe, too sick and freaked out to care, too sick and freaked out to think of anything but the annihilation of my mind and denial of my life. So sick and freaked out that I think everyone is my friend.
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I grew up with heroes, people who made me aspire to raise my game, to dream bigger and I like to keep it that simple.
