Black Flag Quotes
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Songs sung under duress are often very powerful.
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I can say that American men and women in the Military are damn impressive.
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'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit.
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I believe in North, South, East, West, The seasons, life and death, geography. That which is provable, absolute and most of all, functional. I believe in things that can kill me.
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Change is hard, but change is good.
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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 listen to blues music a lot and that's a good person feeling bad and celebrating that pain by releasing it in that kind of joyous fashion.
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I think I am the most impressed with writing styles that defy category, like Kharms or Selby, Breton or Jarry, where you become as interested in the writer as much as the writing itself. It's all these things that make reading so appealing to me.
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Quite often governments are one way and the people are another.
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I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.
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Break from self rejection, try some introspection.
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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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I think Americans suffer for their lack of travel, awareness of the world. It has horribly warped our sense of place in the scheme of things.
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I would like to become a better photographer. I'm working on that.
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I think as resources become more dear, we really need to consider population.
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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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Travelling as extensively as I do... the take away for me has made me very humble and very sympathetic to other people's plight in the world and very desirous of being proactive in being part of a solution somehow and not part of a problem. It's made me very patient and very grateful for where I live.
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Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.
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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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Someone like Ashlee Simpson, she lip-synchs on 'Saturday Night Live,' gets totally called out la Milli Vanilli, and no one really cares that much. It doesn't make me hate Ashlee; she's just taking instructions.
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Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.
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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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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 have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time.