Quotes Greg Ginn

As a label, you have to treat every group and every record a...

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

I didn't have a lot of overtly political songs. I think it w...

I didn't want to wait around for some business entity to com...

I had business experience. I had made my living designing an...

I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than n...

I listen to everything that comes in. I'm not real worried a...

I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The fi...

I'm not that nostalgic. I've never seen any punk band reunio...

If people are really excited about their music, and that's t...

It took us two years to get our first real gig. That was a b...

Most good things happen with time; especially music, which n...

People from major labels were afraid to go to Black Flag gig...

Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the...

Putting out the things that I like best hasn't been the easi...

SST was formed to put out the first Black Flag record. Basic...

Stores can be indifferent to something new....

The biggest disappointment has been seeing the number of peo...

The English scene got more media attention with their emphas...

The Minutemen were seen as more of an art thing than Black F...

The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it...

The REM and Nirvana successes don't mean much to me except a...

The small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, o...

There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't r...

There aren't enough people who are scaring the kind of peopl...