Black Flag Quotes
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All of the things that the bible warns you of being: jealous, covetous, murderous, selfish, etc., that's kind of how humans are.
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The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and its important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.
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You never have to listen to a famous person, it's an elective.
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Humans are pretty amazing at living pretty much anywhere and so that makes me optimistic that perhaps humanity will be able to survive itself, because the reality is that we are going to have problems with water in this century.
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I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.
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A gun in your hand makes a fool out of you. A gun in your hand makes a target out of me.
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Every politician, every president gets votes by getting people that don't like him to like him. That's why politicians are slippery: because they talk out of both sides of their mouth.
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I have heard people say that they felt closer to their parents after they have died. Maybe if I treat people as if they were dead, I could get along with them better
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Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on.
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To burn a CDR of music you like to give as a gift to someone you wish to become closer to is a cold, moist-palmed, mouth-breathing bummer.
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Your commander would never lie to you. That's the vice president's job.
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When people make my country look bad, I can't stand it.
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A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere.
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Americans are poorly served by their media, you know, for the war machine and propaganda machine and the global empire and they're poorly served by what they are being told is representative government.
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There's something about being under-rested and knowing that the situation is going to remain that way for quite some time that makes things more meaningful.
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I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation.
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The fact is, in the minds of many, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a true crime: He was black, male and dared to walk outside. In life, young Trayvon was just a teenager; in death, he has been transformed into a scary, lurking, suspicious, prone-to-violence spook.
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I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.
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There is a concerted effort to keep you and me, you know, the people, away from what it [war] really looks like, 'cause when you're selling war, when it's such a big industry. What they don't tell you is the rest of it and the down side of it. And so obviously there is a lot of money and a lot of time and effort being spent on that campaign "perpetual war for perpetual peace".
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Creativity requires a lot of pass/fail/start again and it is often hard on the psyche.
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I'm always looking, people are always presenting and I have found that every year of my life there's been great bands. All over the world, all the time. So when someone goes, "Music sucks now!" I'll go, "I don't think so. Not over at my house."
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I wonder if the guy at the gun store would give me a discount on the bullets I'll need if I told him what I was up to.
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No child asks to get born, so when they are here, they should be shielded from any possible horror.
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For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa.