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Entity Quote by Greg Ginn

“As a label, you have to treat every group and every record as a unique entity. I think that that has been our success, rather than relying upon a fan base.”

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There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power…

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It is a fact that each song an artist creates is unique and although fans tend to be loyal, ultimately the quality of the…

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There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.

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People from major labels were afraid to go to Black Flag gigs throughout most of the bands existence. They treated our gigs as something…

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The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for…

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Black Flag was formed in 1977. We first recorded in 1978.

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I didn't have a lot of overtly political songs. I think it was more the actions of the group that were threatening to the…

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I didn't want to wait around for some business entity to come around and give me money and tell me what to do. We…

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The small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, or are predators, will use that as an excuse for their eventual downfall.…

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I had business experience. I had made my living designing and building electronic equipment. Basic business was not new to me, but the music…

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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…

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Stores can be indifferent to something new.

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The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events.

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We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing!

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Fasting is not bodily hunger but bodily elevation and purity. It is not a body that hungers and longs for food, but a body that rids itself of the desire to eat. Fasting is a time when the soul flourishes and lifts the body up with it. It rids the body of its loads and burdens and lifts it up…

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The earth itself assures us it is a living entity. Deep below surface one can hear its slow pulse, feel its vibrant rhythm. The great breathing mountains expand and contract. The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans. From the very beginning, throughout all its cataclysmic upthrusts and deep sea submergences, the planet Earth seems to…

I have often noticed that the two nuclear powers on the Indian subcontinent, India and Pakistan, attribute to Kashmiris an inferior intellect, a lineage,…

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The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

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The day came. The wrath descended. Sin, guilt, and retribution? The manic psychoses of those entities we referred to as states, institutions, systems - the powers, the thrones, the dominations - the things which perpetually merge with men and emerge from them? Our darkness, externalized and visible? However you look upon these matters, the critical point was reached. The wrath…

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