Quotes by John Doe

“You cant be a politician with a guitar.”

“No. It was like father and son ... He is my father.”

“Well, help is the important word there because there were a lot of other bands back in those days doing similar stuff,”

“I think we were among the first positive examples of country music for the punk rock audience,”

“Yeah, Ive always thought it had sort of a jazz improvisation aspect to it,”

“Im just happy to be part of a sophomore effort,”

“I dont know of any other band that has two vocalists that can sing together without competition,”

“We would tour the West Coast every four or five years. And every time we would finish wed say, that was fun, we should do this more often. But [until this year] we never did anything about it.”

“Restraint can be tough. Ive made a point to learn how to make a slow song have as much impact as a fast song. Thats a challenge Ive given myself, because its easy to just get out there and blast through a bunch of things and feel as though youre exciting the audience. If you can do that with a slow song, then you really have some variety and some range.”

“I think whenever you are trying to establish something new, you have to draw a line and put everything that came before that behind you,”

The collective impact of these failures has been a complete erosion of ethical standards, ultimately leading to a novel system we still call Capitalism, but which is tantamount to economic slavery. In this system—our system—the slaves are unaware both of their status and of their masters, who exist in a world apart where the intangible shackles are carefully hidden amongst reams of unreachable legalese.