Black Flag Quotes
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August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer.
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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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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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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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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'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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If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.
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I don't see masses, I don't see it like, oh there's hundreds of people here and I'm overwhelmed. I just try to think, well I could be a kid in that crowd, or my daughters could be in that crowd, and no one wants to feel like they're just part of the masses.
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I wouldn't want to roll the dice on Kabul by myself, because I really think getting killed is definitely a possibility there. A very good possibility.
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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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You have to understand that the bass guitar is the party instrument. It only has four strings. If you see a bass player playing five strings, take your shoe off and throw it at him.
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Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.
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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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That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at anyone is laughable.
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I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
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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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I'm constantly around people that talk a lot but say nothing. A sad case.
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Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
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Will punk rock ever die? Pal, if you have to ask it's dead to you.
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What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment of the New York music experience.
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Music files and downloading have indeed changed the currency of music to a great degree.
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Most writers do similar things in their minds. It's how the mind works, basically.
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It is instilled in thousands of American males from an early age that one of their requirements is to be able to both dish out and take a lot of pain. They are taught the rules of this road in gyms, rings, backyards and fields all over America.
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I'm usually the yes guy, and I had to turn into a no guy.