Black Flag Quotes
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Punk-rock gave music back to people. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16 and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that. Me and [Minor Threat and Fugazi vocalist] Ian MacKaye would go to these concerts, and it was fun.
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I never thought I was right for TV or that TV was right for me.
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Every single record I have is a fossil.
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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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If the death of Osama Bin Laden brings any peace to those who lost loved ones on that awful day in September 2001, that is a great thing. It is more likely, however, just a painful reminder of what was lost.
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Most writers do similar things in their minds. It's how the mind works, basically.
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Music files and downloading have indeed changed the currency of music to a great degree.
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I know you’ll never love me but maybe you’ll stay for awhile.
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I have a lot of compact discs. I need them for radio play and convenience. Many bands and artists I am a fan of don't always release their work on vinyl, so I take what they feel like giving me.
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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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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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I love capitalism. It rewards me for being brave - it awards me for being innovative and thinking out of the box.
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I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.
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If some band sucks, you're going to have to find out about it for yourself, because I don't have the interest in issuing warnings.
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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 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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For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.
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The only thing about sanctions is that, like a lot of drone strikes, there are countless unintended victims. Cutting off aid to Uganda only increases the pain there.
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I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter tightens its grip.
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My first introduction to African music was by my mother, who bought the 'Pata Pata' album by the great Miriam Makeba when it came out. Now that is an album. What a voice.
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Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.
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I'm usually the yes guy, and I had to turn into a no guy.
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Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.
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He looked at her Something Turned cancerous He was in love.
