Ginn Quotes

#1. The end goal of every growth hacker is to build a self-perpetuating marketing machine that reaches millions by itself. - AARON GINN

Ryan Holiday

#2. Greg Ginn was certainly a huge influence on my guitar playing. I put him up there with people like Eddie Van Halen. Eddie Van Halen changed everything; I don't necessarily like everything he did, but he definitely changed everything.

Buzz Osborne

#3. Putting out the things that I like best hasn't been the easiest way to run a label, and it still isn't because it requires finding an audience for each record.

Greg Ginn

#4. Maybe we should just take out our dicks and see which is bigger?

Ginn Hale

#5. 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 and feeling if it had swing.

Greg Ginn

#6. A rower knows the underlying presence that moves a boat; it is quite simply force and energy. The force needs to be penetrating, and the energy needs to be driving and uninhibited.

Drew Ginn

#7. We've gotten involved in cat rescue - we take them in and find homes for them. I've always loved cats. I saw how homeless cats were living out there. We take them in, put out flyers.

Greg Ginn

#8. Them papers are clean as a unicorn's snatch!

Ginn Hale

#9. 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

#10. If people are really excited about their music, and that's their primary motivation, then that comes through in demo tapes. That's the most important ingredient.

Greg Ginn

#11. 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 that instant gratification.

Greg Ginn

#12. In Yuan" Alizadeh whispered to Kiram, "they have a word for a man who fights a darkness he cannot defeat."

"What is it?" Kiram asked.

"A fool," Alizadeh replied.

Ginn Hale

#13. For your pleasure I'm creating a collection of erotic drawings so poorly rendered that I feel certain they will completely shake your belief in my understanding of human anatomy.

Ginn Hale

#14. Stores can be indifferent to something new.

Greg Ginn

#15. Your flesh is my earth. Your blood is my river. Your breath is my sky. Your body is my world.

Ginn Hale

#16. He couldn't undo the past, nor could he know how he had already altered the future. But that didn't matter. What he really cared about was captured in the warmth of their interlaced fingers. What mattered was the life the two of them made together now.

Ginn Hale

#17. He'd seen what became of men who sacrificed their hearts' desires for security.

Ginn Hale

#18. So long as you're living, never give up.

Ginn Hale

#19. The Minutemen were seen as more of an art thing than Black Flag, although I didn't see them that way. It confused people when we put out Saccharine Trust, too.

Greg Ginn

#20. It was a lazy community of mutual disinterest and alcohol.

Ginn Hale

#21. I know," Kahlil said. "You're probably the only man who would compare me to a fungus and mean it as a compliment.

Ginn Hale

#22. It didn't matter who he might have been. That was not who he was now. He created himself each day and slowly built his own history.

Ginn Hale

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

Greg Ginn

#24. 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

#25. The small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, or are predators, will use that as an excuse for their eventual downfall. Don't blame others for your own inadequacies.

Greg Ginn

#26. The Pepper Sisters," Falk told him, "I think you just got an eyeful of the new ad campaign for their dairy."

"Were those the owners or the producers?" Jason asked.

"Both. It's an employee-owned co-op. Chemical-free too now that Pickle's quit smoking.

Ginn Hale

#27. No doubt, the flakes of snow falling over him carried ashen nuclei. John tried to concentrate on those tiny flecks of carbon at the center of each snowflake. He tried to think of their elemental futures. Perhaps a hundred thousand years from now they would become tiny diamonds.

Ginn Hale

#28. I'm so glad to be grouped with the men you've seen in rotten shape. My hope is that someday I will reach the pinnacle of that appalling list.

Ginn Hale

#29. 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.

Greg Ginn

#30. No matter how bad he felt, there was nothing to be done about it. He had made hard and even cruel choices, but in the end they were the ones he knew were right. There was no use in regretting them.

Ginn Hale

#31. The promise of destroying an enemy so utterly is hard to resist.

Ginn Hale

#32. We had a lot of riots. We came under attack from many of the police departments. It certainly wasn't some publicity thing. I was afraid for many years. We couldn't play in LA for many years. A lot of people got very cynical.

Greg Ginn

#33. We can tell you many things, but none are certain and many are lies.

Ginn Hale

#34. More sheltering is rarely an antidote for too much in the first place.

Ginn Hale

#35. We're not good at propping up old carcasses. We want to be on top of what's vital at any particular time, and not just hold onto something because it has a name.

Greg Ginn

#36. Now that I have this piglet talisman... who knows what I might find the poor judgment to do?

Ginn Hale

#37. We aren't as concerned about the live aspect as other labels. The best live bands are the easiest to record.

Greg Ginn

#38. The wisdom of age defeats the strength of youth.

Ginn Hale

#39. There aren't enough people who are scaring the kind of people who work at these record companies.

Greg Ginn

#40. Tell me." Edward had to raise his voice a little. "Do you live by the principle that what people don't know can't hurt them?" "No," Harper replied. "What people don't know can't hurt me.

Ginn Hale

#41. The English scene got more media attention with their emphasis on fashion, with the safety pins and all. There were some really good bands over there. The Sex Pistols were great.

Greg Ginn

#42. 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 a band can play, then they can play.

Greg Ginn

#43. 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.

Greg Ginn

#44. 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 authorities, and also our political philosophies apart from the music.

Greg Ginn

#45. Don't waste your prayers on the past, when the future is where you're going.

Ginn Hale

#46. I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer.

Greg Ginn

#47. We were excited when we sold our first 10 records. I always felt that if we could get the music out there, and if people became accustomed to it, then a substantial number of them would enjoy it.

Greg Ginn

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. It took us two years to get our first real gig. That was a big dream. We ended up booking a lot of our own gigs and putting on a lot of our own shows. We were trying to get our actual music across, trying to make a connection there.

Greg Ginn

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

Greg Ginn

#52. While power is important, efficiency is critical. Many have worked hard and gone slow.

Drew Ginn

#53. If you have time to judge another person's life, you're not paying attention to yours.

Ginn Pascale

#54. The biggest disappointment has been seeing the number of people in this business with very shortsighted views.

Greg Ginn

#55. Most good things happen with time; especially music, which needs time to breathe and to find its own way.

Greg Ginn

#56. It is a fact that each song an artist creates is unique and although fans tend to be loyal, ultimately the quality of the record will decide how it sells.

Greg Ginn

#57. The REM and Nirvana successes don't mean much to me except as a potential distraction for bands who want to cash in on the trend. Don't try to sound like someone else. REM and Nirvana don't sound like anyone else.

Greg Ginn

#58. To fear what you do not understand is to mistake ignorance for safety.

Ginn Hale

#59. You have to keep the business side together as well as the creative side. We have constantly surprised people and stayed with bands until they have grown on people.

Greg Ginn

#60. No." Belimai reached out and touched Harper's shoulder. "I only said it to hurt you. I wanted to make you feel as bad as I did." Belimai smiled. "It's my own little way of sharing what I have with you. Aren't you lucky?

Ginn Hale

#61. I had business experience. I had made my living designing and building electronic equipment. Basic business was not new to me, but the music business was completely new to me. I knew nothing about distribution, or any of those things.

Greg Ginn