Black Flag Quotes
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We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost.
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Will punk rock ever die? Pal, if you have to ask it's dead to you.
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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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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've never killed anybody... but I've definitely thought about it.
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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 beg young people to travel. If you don't have a passport, get one.........the re are lessons that you can't get out of a book that are waiting for you at the other end of that flight. A lot of people - Americans and Europeans - come back and go, "ohhhhh." And the lightbulb goes on.
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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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There're some places that are more difficult or dangerous to navigate and I wouldn't look forward to going back. Like I'd much rather go back to Afghanistan - which fascinates me - quicker than I'd go back to spend a week walking around Nairobi, Kenya, which is a great and easy way to get yourself killed.
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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 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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Barack Obama's administration responded to the Haitian crisis within 24 hours. Here comes the soldiers, here comes the food, go go go... Rush Limbaugh told his multi-millions of listeners that Obama only did that to gain favour with black people in America. This is the kind of idiocy that I have to deal with in my country.
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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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I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist.
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If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back.
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I don't have talent. I have tenacity.
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I used to sit on the roof of the apartment where Jim Morrison used to write his early lyrics
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I'm not God, but I'm working within my own means as an artist and a person, and I possibly have more power than God does, in whatever form he has, if he exists, because I can work without the overarching ambition of wanting to rule over everything. I can work just for the heck of it.
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There is no place in the world like Australia. Not even its beautiful neighbor New Zealand.
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I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions.
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I desire to have a dialogue that's positive, and communicative and moves forward, and is about something real, not just consumption.
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Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience's attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say.
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The biggest disappointment has been seeing the number of people in this business with very shortsighted views.
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I wouldn't want to be defined so much by comics or cartoons. My work is more narrative than that. If you take your basic cartoon, there's always a punchline or a joke at the end. My drawings don't depend on that so much.
