Greg Ginn Quotes

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

  Greg Ginn

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Greg Ginn

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  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.

  Greg Ginn

Greg Ginn (31)

Birth:	8th June, 1954
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Guitarist, Lyricist, Singer

About

Gregory Regis Ginn is an American guitarist, songwriter, and singer. He is best known for being the leader of and primary songwriter for the hardcore punk band Black Flag, which he founded and led from 1976 to 1986, and again in 2003. The band announced another reunion on January 25, 2013. He was born in Tucson, Arizona.

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