Black Flag Quotes
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It's always been impressive to me when someone can really do what they want onstage. The audience has confidence in the performer and the performer has confidence in the crowd.
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Everyone should have the right to go off and do their music or do their books. The people who are in the position to censor they're really not down to reality where that certain artists are coming from.
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As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.
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I don't know how much you follow current events. For some, there's not enough time to keep up on what's happening; for others, the news is too depressing, and peering too deeply fills one with boiling frustration all too quickly.
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The Internet, the camera cellphone and the like have not only sped up the world's information uptake, but they have cheapened that which they capture.
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Bono actually gets a lot of substantial work done. The guy really does put a lot of things together and, while I'm not a fan of his music, I greatly applaud his humanitarian efforts.
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Life is death in slow motion.
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The public library system of the United States is worth preserving.
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The easy solution isn't the solution, it's the problem.
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When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it.
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I don't really have any women in my life, actually those two - the women in my life are two married women who work at my office.
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Don't push me I've got a corner at my back I've nowhere to go except over you.
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Through the years, I have combined meditation, action, and the Iron into a single strength. I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts. Time spent away from the Iron makes my mind degenerate. I wallow in a thick depression. My body shuts down my mind.
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Florida is a crazy place, and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here.
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I want to meet a woman that will make me stop and listen to what she has to say. I want a woman who will make my jaw drop in awe. A woman that has little time for me. One who does not throw herself at me. One who respects herself who has a sense of herself. Where is she
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You can pass all the gun legislation you want. None of it will make me feel any more or less safe than I do right at this moment.
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Enough Americans saw fit to give president Obama a second term. I don't think there will be many people keeping their Romney/Ryan bumper stickers on their cars.
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The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.
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I warn people, your 40s will require massive amounts of humor and humility.
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I live my life through the prism of capitalism and physiological limits and eventualities.
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For me the music is not so much anger as much as it is of passion. And I've always associated that kind of intense emotional output with music just because the nature of the music that's attracted me as far as live.
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There is a lot to say about what Bikini Kill and other 'riot grrrl' bands were able to achieve when they first set out. They were not some momentary, convulsive, creative spasm of independent music. There was a very real, relevant point of view being expressed.
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Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions.
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Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations.