Black Flag Quotes
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I'm a recognizable person and some people feel the need for some reason to take me to task. You're really messing with the wrong person on that one.
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Songs sung under duress are often very powerful.
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Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.
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I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.
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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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I love to go on stage and sing.
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Do it or don't. It's amazing how many things in life are that easy.
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It'll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself.
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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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Quite often governments are one way and the people are another.
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I've never raped or killed anybody, or hurt a kid. I've done all the more inept, high-volume stuff - like, "Whoops, sorry I came in your hair. Don't worry, I won't use your name when I tell this story on stage."
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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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The ones who don't do anything are always the ones who try to pull you down.
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I think we are in fact, losing free speech. We don't seem to care though. Many of us don't seem to notice. We will have to do a lot of work to bring back the American way to America.
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The fact is that I am always thinking of something to build. A new book, radio show, plans for a trip somewhere. I am not a very happy person but I feel pretty even when I am working, so I guess that is how I am wired.
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Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.
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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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Sometimes you can get so far in yourself that you don't know who you are.
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Not that the writers weren't good. I believe in those books and those writers very much. It's just that in the climate it's really hard to keep the lights on and the doors open when you're selling poetry and literature that appeals to a fringe audience.
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I used to love you I still do So Selfish I love the old you The you that didnt shoot drugs ...The you that didnt get beat on by men You laugh in my face and call me a fool But its true I still love you Sometimes,I can see the old you When your eyes flash When you almost look alive
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I can say that American men and women in the Military are damn impressive.
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In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.
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Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit.
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I'm a professional food eater.