Black Flag Quotes
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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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I'm always looking upwards and looking forwards and so when someone says, "Hey, would you consider a TV show?" I say, "Hell yeah, I'll consider that. I'll check that out."
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It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to talk about music, it's all marketing, and that's part of a record, you gotta get it out there, people have gotta hear it, but you could do it in a way that's not repulsive.
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I recycle and try to be nice to the earth. But flora and fauna have always interested me, and it is because of so many years of summer camp and growing up in DC with Rock Creek Park fairly near me, or Glover Park; I lived in Glover Park for a while and that park was in my backyard.
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It's good to be able to deal with it [anger] somehow other than drinking, fighting, crashing cars, hitting your kid, your wife, your husband, your whatever. Paintbrushes, pens, movie cameras, guitars, microphones, typewriters -- these are good things. Weights. These are positive ways, good ways to deal with anger, frustration, alienation, rage. 'Cause all the other ways do nothing but hurt people.
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Change is hard, but change is good.
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No time for drug addiction, no time for smoke or booze. Too strong for a shortened life span, I've got no time to lose.
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I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail.
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Creating problems is easy. We do it all the time. Finding solutions, ones that last and produce good results, requires guts and care.
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I can say that American men and women in the Military are damn impressive.
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Don't go to summer camp. Bury your parents in the backyard and have the place to yourself.
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Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing.
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Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul.
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Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.
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It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.
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I have built my life to pursue the new. I don't have family, don't know many people and I am usually ready to leave within an hour.
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I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time.
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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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I would like to become a better photographer. I'm working on that.
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There’s got to be someone for me. It’s not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.
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Sometimes you can get so far in yourself that you don't know who you are.
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An appreciation of animals is good for a human, it can lead to a better understanding and respect for all living things.
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I spend a lot of time alone so I get a lot done. I don't do much else but work, check things out.
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Nothing moves me more than the history of the United States.