Black Flag Quotes
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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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I warn people, your 40s will require massive amounts of humor and humility.
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Putting out the things that I like best hasn't been the easiest way to run a label, and it still isn't because it requires finding an audience for each record.
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The talking shows are like free jazz. I'm just gonna go out there and blow with the idea of keeping it streamlined and not wasting time. It's wild. And it's a great thing when you see a performer really able to.
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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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Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.
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No one should die when they're 50.
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Human beings should not be reduced to a state to where they almost get into a fight over a small bar of soap.
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I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave.
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Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre for its intensity, extremism and underlying irony: You have to be alive to play it and listen to it.
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All of the jobs have gone away to satisfy the stockholders, so that's where the economy has gone. These major multinational corporations do not see their futures in America.
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To this day, my haircut is the number two clippers, which I apply to myself every month.
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It's hard to judge literary merit.
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I'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person.
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Hopefully, one enhances [when growing older] his sense of humor. As he approaches 50, he'll need all the humor he can get.
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If I hear, 'Be afraid of Tehran,' I'm like, 'I'd better go to Tehran.'
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If the truth is told how I want to be remembered... as someone who cared. Someone who worked really hard and someone who didn't sit around.
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I think there is something very interesting about people who live day to day in an environment where they could get taken out by a wild animal. There has to be some kind respect that is derived from that relationship.
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When I write lyrics, it's only when I'm angry or hurt or sad. So lyrically it's never really easy going. And the music is always really intense.
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I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.
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Music keeps you young. Having music in your life keeps you open to things.
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I am very ambitious in a way, in that I'm not trying to be the richest guy or whatever. I just really like my work.
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I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book.
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I have no pride about anything I have done. It's just not the way I think about things. I do the work, always, as hard as I can, to the point of pain, injury, exhaustion, if that is what it takes. Once I am done, I move on.