Yer Ol' Uncle D

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jun 4, 2019

"Life's too short and too complicated for people behind desks, people behind masks to be ruining other people's lives, initiating force against other people's lives on the basis of their income, their color, their class, their religious beliefs, whatever." - Jeff Buckley

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jun 4, 2019

"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer." - Frank Zappa

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jun 3, 2019

"How many 54-year-old quadriplegics are putting albums out? You just have to deal with what you got, try to sustain yourself as best you can, and look to the things that you can do. " - Curtis Mayfield, born this day in 1942.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jun 2, 2019

"Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life." - Art Blakey

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jun 1, 2019

"It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play really loud, with distortion." - J Mascis

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jun 1, 2019

"Whenever a political regime or religious establishment refuses to tolerate criticism, it advertises itself as repressive, backward, and insecure." - Mark Knopfler

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• Jun 1, 2019

"Whoever controls the flow of information dictates our perceptions and perspectives; whoever controls the news shapes our destiny." - George Clinton

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• May 31, 2019

"At one time, I had it notarised that I was from another planet. By a lawyer." - Roky Erickson. Hope the other side is as fun as you imagined. RIP.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• May 31, 2019

"By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso." - Robert Quine, 15 years gone today. You probably don't know Bob by name, but you've probably heard Bob's guitar. And if you haven't, you need to.

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• May 29, 2019

"The only person who can say they're happy getting old is someone who isn't actually old yet. Every day, I get less and less happy about that idea." - Nick Cave

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• May 28, 2019

"I don't like fashion. I don't like art. I do like smashing up expensive things. Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behavior patterns make me so bored," - Wendy O. Williams

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• May 27, 2019

"I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli." - David Johansen

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• May 26, 2019

"Don't play what's there, play what's not there." - Miles Davis

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• May 24, 2019

"I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary." - Billy Joel

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• May 24, 2019

"I'm mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it's the only place where I'm happy." - Bob Dylan

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• May 23, 2019

"I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That's what I worry about more than I worry about jazz." - Sonny Rollins

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• May 23, 2019

"If you can't play the blues... you might as well hang it up." - Dexter Gordon

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• May 22, 2019

"Farming's always been my business. I just play blues for fun." - Howlin' Wolf

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• May 22, 2019

"I have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one." - Morrissey

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  Yer Ol' Uncle D

• May 21, 2019

"I think there's a huge lack of political artists in America, and I think it really speaks to our consumeristic culture and how people are driven to be financially successful here. It's such a shame that we don't have people who are more inspired than that." - Corin Tucker