Black Flag Quotes
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There is no place in the world like Australia. Not even its beautiful neighbor New Zealand.
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It's possible to do your best work at your highest level without competing. I'm not anticompetition, but at an individual level, it can be degrading for both sides. And it doesn't have to be that way. I've done pretty well at getting past that sort of thing, and it's a relief not to have the rancor.
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Nietzsche, who you don't spend too much time with after the age of seventeen, did have that one great line about "he who stares into the abyss must know that the abyss also stares into him" and I never really understood that until my friend got killed and you really get your head around the idea of what horror means. It's a truly awful thing, to really, kind of have that understanding of things and when you really peer into that.
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Most writers do similar things in their minds. It's how the mind works, basically.
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Everything I do, writing, touring, travelling, it all comes from the punk and hardcore attitude, from that expression - from being open to try things but relying on yourself, taking what you have into the battle and making of it what you will, hoping you can figure it out as you go. Make some sense of it.
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The bible saw that can get a lot of people killed, so let's try and steer people away from that. I am not an expert on the bible. I am just saying.
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No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.
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Life is a hurdle and you'll never clear it. Death is the end of the ride and you fear it.
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I'm mellower now, I'm over 50. But I don't think I'm too mellow. I'm still angry at a lot of things.
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I get a lot of shit because I put "I" in the lyrics all the time. The "I" is always for someone else... When I say "I," it's so that when that person is singing along with the song, it empowers them.
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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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One of the most insane environments I have ever spent time in is a gun range. There we are, all in a line, armed to the teeth, firing away.
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I have to keep moving I don't want to think I'm going to work all day today I don't want to stop Don't want to let my brain catch up my thoughts How will I be able to tell them that I'm a shadow A grey patch of cold rotting life
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If it's a man's world, as they say, then men, your world is a poorly run carnage fest.
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Love heals scars love left.
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For me, returning to Los Angeles annihilates the memories of where I have just been with an astonishing speed.
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I never think of what it's going to be like later. I only think in the present tense. The only time I think backwards is when I have to reissue something.
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If you really want a true confrontation, you treat your opponent with respect.
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For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened to while one is halfheartedly engaged in something else.
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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 feel like a visitor that got left behind by his ride.
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Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me.
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When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break.
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In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song.