#ted

SST was formed to put out the first Black Flag record. Basically, there wasn't anyone else to do it. I felt that what I was doing with Black Flag was very worthwhile, and I wanted to get it out there. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#basically #black #doing #else #felt

Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing. ↗

— James Buchan

#also #colossal #converted #else #europe

I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.' ↗

— Sam Worthington

#big brother #brother #famous #gone #i

I had the first integrated Army band in World War II. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#band #first #had #i #ii

Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#because #being #democracy #dictatorship #discipline

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 just started releasing records as best we could. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#best #business #come #could #entity

Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love. ↗

— Jack Bruce

#because #been #everything #first #first love

I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a bludgeoning of blues. Deep Purple also started out as a blues band. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#also #band #bands #best #black

Whatever I have come to offer, I have come to offer and it may or may not be connected to anything that has happened in the past. ↗

— Bill Bruford

#come #connected #happened #i #in the past

People from major labels were afraid to go to Black Flag gigs throughout most of the band's existence. They treated our gigs as something threatening. I'm sure that it probably was. They probably had reasons to be scared. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#band #black #existence #flag #gigs