Black Flag Quotes
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I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.
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Disappointment always arrives before hope and the darkness of night comes before the dawn. Don't lose hope now because things will brighter with the new day.
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When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension
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I have lived in public as a somewhat recognizable person since I was a teenager. Emails I answer end up posted on sites; pictures of me and someone I just met, taken by a cellphone, literally number in the thousands and are easily accessed.
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I have watched independent record stores evaporate all over America and Europe. That's why I go into as many as I can and buy records whenever possible. If we lose the independent record store, we lose big. Every time you buy your records at one of these places, it's a blow to the empire.
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Have you ever heard the expression 'one hot mess?' I think the term was custom-made for the mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford.
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I can't imagine being sixty years of age and playing music I wrote when I was in my twenties. I would rather sail the sea of consequence to new lands. Laps around the shallow end of the pool, not for me.
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I believe that contentment or any sustained period of joy that doesn't inspire thought that leads to action almost immediately is useless.
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I didn't have a lot of overtly political songs. I think it was more the actions of the group that were threatening to the authorities, and also our political philosophies apart from the music.
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He looked at her Something Turned cancerous He was in love.
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I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds
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I beg young people to travel.
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The tasks I set out for myself are what I do to beat the perfect pointlessness of life.
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Trayvon Martin did not need to die.
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I've never killed anybody... but I've definitely thought about it.
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An adult has the opportunity to enjoy the wisdom gleaned from previous decades of living and experience.
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I don't have talent. I have tenacity.
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The world’s a better place since I chose music. I like the physical aspect of it, the volume and the intensity of it. It’s loud and hard. I like all that because inside me I feel like screaming.
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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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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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Discipline is money in the bank. A real friend, true strength.
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America is a rough room and you don't know what might come your way, so you have to be prepared for almost anything.
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As far as poetry, I don't know if I've ever written any. I've read a lot. I just write and it comes out in different forms and shapes. I don't know if I'm any good at it I just really go for it and I'm very prolific book wise only because I own the company. No one tells me 'no' around here.
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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.