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"By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso."
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"I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years."
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"By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso."
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"I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all."
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"The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies."
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"The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican."
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"When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical."
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"Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers."
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"From '69 til '76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home."
Home
"By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job."
Tax
"I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting."
Fight
"I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice and went through two days of auditioning for bands."
Tax
"By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso."
Punk
"Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics."
Music
"After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz."
Jazz
"I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying."
Pretty
"My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to."
Listening
"I really feel fortunate to have been around then because there have been good and bad years in rock but the best years were '55 to early '61. I got to see Buddy Holly and everybody else."
Holly
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