Black Flag Quotes
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I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.
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I listen to everything that comes in. I'm not real worried about demo sound quality. I can hear through that sort of thing. If a band can play, then they can play.
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Music, to me, is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does.
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If I hear, 'Be afraid of Tehran,' I'm like, 'I'd better go to Tehran.'
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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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If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and never, ever seek cure outside of more music. It really is the best drug available.
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I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading 'Play It As It Lays,' 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' and 'The White Album.'
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We're just very belligerent, and I'm not trying to put Americans down, by and large I think we're nice people, but we operate with the information we're given and we are limited by the ignorance that is kind of injected into the media and into the TV shows.
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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 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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I contribute a large amount of money to the Southern Poverty Law Center, so I'm on their mailing list for all their Klan Watch newsletters. I'm very well aware of White Power movements in America.
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I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.
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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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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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I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.
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The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.
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Motivation has always been a fascinating factor when considering a touring artist, especially when the years stack up. What keeps one out there year after year?
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I think the most "passionate" I get about actual humans are the ones I want to kill.
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As far as what people think of me, maybe my stuff should just be put online for free downloads when I'm gone.
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Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul.
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I'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person.
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As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it.
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And I laugh at myself when I screw things up, which happens all the time.
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Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't.