Greg Graffin Quotes - Page 3

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• You can't take up all the music bins at a CD retail outlet with Spice Girls CDs and leave nothing for the Joan Jett catalogue.

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  Girl, Cds, Retail

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• One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature.

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  Human Nature, Tradition, Humans

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• I'm a biologist, so... Which I think should be mandatory. Biology should be mandatory. Mathematics? They say we don't know enough about math and science. Well we don't know enough about science and particularly biology, which is such a huge field.

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  Math, Thinking, Fields

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• It's extremely hard to get rid of any population. When they say polio is essentially wiped out, it's not. If we let up on the vaccinations, it will make a come back.

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  Population, Polio, Hard

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Here's the thing, who cares what you have to look at, I'm a big advocate of not obscuring vistas, but even if you build the biggest wind farm, can it run anything more than a domestic washer and dryer and a computer, for the year? I'm sorry guys, the answer, you're going to be shocked to know: it ain't much more than that.

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  Running, Sorry, Wind Farms

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Folk music usually has an emphasis on the lyrics and melody. And those lyrics are usually relevant in some way. And it's populist in scope, which is also true of Bad Religion. So it's more meant to draw some parallels between the two. And I think even my voice and my delivery can be thought of as a little bit folky.

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  Thinking, Two, Voice

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• I have great hope and faith, but it's a humanistic faith based in facts; you have to believe that facts exist. We can all arrive at the same facts if we engage in the process of experimentation, observation, and verification, which can solve more of the world's major problems than a debate over whether God does or doesn't exist.

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  Believe, Doe, World

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• Unfortunately, the average guy on the street believes that studying evolution leads to atheism.

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  Believe, Average, Guy

  "Punk Rock Professor Talks Anarchy And Evolution". Interview with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. October 15, 2010.

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• I usually am thinking about my next book the second I put the last dot on the previous one that I turn in.

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  Book, Thinking, Lasts

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was in a choir as a kid. It was from those early days that my outlook on harmonies and arrangements were nurtured. I always took that with me, even on the earliest Bad Religion record, which strangely was only about six years after that.

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  Kids, Years, Records

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• I'm saying that there were many great naturalists before Darwin's time who were very pious people and who knew more about nature than most of us. These were great naturalists; people I would admire for their knowledge of natural science given the time.

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  People, Natural, Given

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• Society has to be structured such that there are checks and balances, so that it can't be manipulated, for instance, for the profit of just some multinational company who's going to get rich on trying to legislate the environment.

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  Balance, Trying, Environment

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I believe in strong legislation for the environment. So the only question is being smart enough and educated enough to scrutinize the people who are writing the legislation, because there are plenty of ulterior motives out there.

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  Strong, Smart, Believe

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you accept learning as a dominant determination of your behavior, then all of a sudden you're open to the idea that, for instance, there are other people who are more educated than you about the environment, who you will learn from. It's kind of like you don't even have to believe that you know anything about the environment, but you do have to understand that your behavior has been determined by learning in the past.

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  Determination, Believe, Past

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't think workaholic is in the dictionary as an affliction, but it's obviously someone who has a disease, and I don't feel diseased by it. I just think that I enjoy life and life has many offerings. I feel lucky to be able to have a forum to share a lot of these ideas.

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  Thinking, Offering, Ideas

  "Greg Graffin of Bad Religion". Interview with Joshua Chaplinsky, chuckpalahniuk.net. October 18, 2010.

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• It's not a random chance that we have Alanis Morissette. She didn't evolve out of a null and void. She came from a former template. She borrowed styles and sounds from a very limited set of other artists.

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  Artist, Style, Sound

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• The vocal arrangements are a big part of the formula for a Bad Religion song - layered harmonies and background vocals. So when I start to describe the elements of Bad Religion's sound, it starts to sound like a Christmas choir.

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  Song, Sound, Elements

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• People need to understand the basics of evolution if they are going to reject it—otherwise, they are not contributing anything productive to modern society.

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  People, Needs, Evolution

  Greg Graffin, Steve Olson (2010). “Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God”, p.18, Harper Collins

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