Greg Ginn Artist Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

When the Minutemen opened for Black Flag shows, people hated them. We had to develop a Minutemen audience from different people.

We've never had any gigantic hits, or anything like that. Perhaps that has helped us because nothing has come easy. We've had to work consistently.

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.

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.

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.

You have a very creative period which generates a name for the band, followed by a long decline where the band tries to cash in on the name.