Black Flag Quotes
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To my ears, jazz sounds better in warm weather and after the sun has gone down. While I will listen to some of my favorite jazz records in cooler weather, it's the warmer nights that really make them come alive. Something about those sounds and the heat of the night really makes it happen for me.
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Most of the writers I like just intimidate and humble me but in that there's a good deal of inspiration to be had as well.
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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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Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten, and Ian MacKaye were all people who really made me see things differently.
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I don't have many friends so the phone doesn't ring and no one's asking me to go out and go dancing with them.
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To our enemies all over the world who plan America's demise, please take my advice. Give up now. No matter what, you will lose. You will lose it all.
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I'm not out here on the front lines trying to create clones, or consumers, or worshippers of who I am, and what I do. I'm trying to nurture the idea that you should do your own thing, which is really powerful.
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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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I guess I am famous in a way. I would rather consider it recognizable - I think that is more logical. I don't feel famous.
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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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Rarely do I do film press because I'm so low on the food chain of the movie, and for me it's just this thing I did for four weeks before the next tour started.
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My whole access into culture was violent. Violence is something I understand. Don't like it, don't condone it, but I sure understand where it comes from.
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Republicans just can't help themselves. They get in front of a live microphone and within a few sentences are rocketing down the swiftest and most direct route to the all-you-can-eat comedian-and-talk-show-host buffet.
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You might as well enjoy the day - you never know when and how painfully it could all end.
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Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby.
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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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If I think of the audience too much, then I'm going to start catering to them...and it turns into entertainment. And I've got time for entertainment; I'm just not at all that interested in doing it myself. I'd rather go for some pretty raw expression.
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We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head down a very bad, dark trail to where a lot of people aren't going to make it.
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The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.
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Juan Williams is a very sharp guy.
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I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind.
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There are religions and social and moral awareness in any society that gets passed immediately. Those human truths. All cultures address them.
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There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing.
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If you really want a true confrontation, you treat your opponent with respect.
