Greg Ginn Quotes

I was faced more with apathy than opposition.

My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.'

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

I love portraying the totally indifferent person.

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

There's nothing you could say that would shock me.

I don't care who's playing. Even if it's my favorite artist, I'm probably not gonna go and see him.

If you do something new, it will always look a little bit strange.

People are negative no matter what you do.

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

It's not actually OK to just be apathetic about anything.

Competition is one of the most important drivers of innovation because you have to stay in the race. You have to think of something new, and if you don't, well, of course you should leave the market.

Trying to show people something they haven't really seen before can get a lot of push-back.

Nobody's impressed back home. All my friends were going, 'Oh right, so you're doing a play up in Leeds? Another depressing one is it? Do you mind if we don't bother coming?' I love that.

In all honesty, I'm not interested in records.

The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.

INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.

It's interesting when something new comes along, a band of dwarfs playing electronic harps or something, but I'm not searching.

Working with (new collaborators) and letting people in to try new melodies and new lyrical ideas was very hard.

If you ever have a new idea, and it's really new, you have to expect that it won't be widely accepted immediately. It's a long hard process.

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

It's all the same to the clam.