Black Flag Quotes
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I would never be innovative enough to "blaze my own trail," I'm just trying to be interesting. So I don't look to anyone else as far as inspiration.
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With writing, there are multiple drafts. On stage, there is one take. I do a lot of preparation for shows, so, for the most part, what you hear me say is pretty much what I wanted to get at.
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I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.
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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've enjoyed, to a certain extent, any country I've been in, of course like Serbia and Croatia can be very restrictive and oppressive, and frustrating, but they're still very beautiful.
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In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground.
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As a young person growing up in Washington, D.C., summers were hot, humid and relentless. My friends and I grew more restless and adventurous with every passing year.
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We were excited when we sold our first 10 records. I always felt that if we could get the music out there, and if people became accustomed to it, then a substantial number of them would enjoy it.
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If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.
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Youths write me and tell me that their band will go nowhere because of all the bad bands in the world. I tell them there has always been awful music and that no great band ever wasted any time complaining, they just got it done. Their ropey ranting is just a way to get out of the hard work of making music that will do some lasting damage.
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The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be tied to songs to such a degree that it's almost unbearable to listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly.
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I got my heart broken. My spirit got shattered and mutilated. I will not be coming back from this. I don’t want to.
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I am not immune to the lure of a signed record, flier or set list. The fact that your music heroes potentially had, in their own hands, the record you now have in yours is kind of cool. When the musician has departed, it can give the thing a unique power.
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The only safety is in the middle of total misunderstanding and deception.
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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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Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.
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I never thought I was right for TV or that TV was right for me.
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Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.
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Help me to withstand your beauty as it stands out of reach. Give me the capacity to forget ever having felt your touch.
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Entertainment's hard on the ego. I see why actors are so psycho now. Because there's so much 'we don't want you' going on in acting. Even big people get rejected but the smaller people - they really get rejected. Trust me - I know.
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I have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll.
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Quite often people will get an animal which is probably not a good idea for them to have. They get it out of enthusiasm, there is a genuine interest, but sometimes they're not exactly prepared for what they're getting themselves into.
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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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I'm constantly around people that talk a lot but say nothing. A sad case.