“Whether you reach a lot of people or have a profound impact on a few people, their memories of you are your afterlife.” Quote by Greg Graffin
“You can't let your personal disposition be dictated by the world around you.” WorldDisposition Author:Greg Graffin
“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.” GirlOutletsSpicesCdsRetailCataloguesSpice Girls Author:Greg Graffin
“Almost everyone shuts down when science becomes too technical; you've got to infuse it with entertainment and storytelling to make it effective. From high school on, science is taught in a very dry manner, which isn't as potent.” SchoolTaughtHigh SchoolEntertainmentStorytellingDry Author:Greg Graffin
“I grew up playing field hockey and lacrosse - prep school sport - and I was terrible at them.” SchoolSportsFieldsGrewTerribleGrew UpHockeyPlaying FieldsPrepsLacrosseField Hockey Author:Julie Bowen
“Bad Religion has never been about criticizing people who are Christian. But we've always been about pointing out the irony and contradictions in Christian theology and the more extreme versions of Christians that seek to challenge modern secularism.” PeopleChristianChallengesModernExtremesTheologyVersionsIronyContradictionCriticizePointingSecularismChristian Theology Author:Greg Graffin
“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.” ThinkingWayLittlesTwoBitsVoiceLittle BitDrawsFolksMelodyRelevantEmphasisScopeParallelsDeliveryFolk MusicPopulist Author:Greg Graffin
“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.” IfsWorldBelieveDoeFactsProblemProcessMajorsSolveDebateObservationExperimentationHope And FaithGreat HopeHumanisticFaith BasedMajor ProblemsVerification Author:Greg Graffin
“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.” YearsKidsRecordsSixHarmonyArrangementsOutlookChoir Author:Greg Graffin
“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.” PeopleGivenNaturalAdmirePiousNatural ScienceNaturalist Author:Greg Graffin
“I've written almost 200 songs with Bad Religion. No matter where you look in our history, the focus has been trying to instill some of these disturbing realities about the world, some of the implications of evolution into an artistic format that can be interpreted by people who may never study evolution.” PeopleWorldTryingLooksMayHas BeensMatterRealitySongStudyFocusWrittenEvolutionArtisticDisturbingImplicationsFormatInstill Author:Greg Graffin