At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
Skateboarding is not a hobby. And it is not a sport. Skateboarding is a way of learning how to redefine the world… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
What people don't understand is that the underground that existed was created in the early 80s and was thriving throughout the 80s.… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
Let's say for instance people say, "He's a really totalitarian, strict guy, he's hard to work with or whatever." I don't think… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
People ask me: ‘What is punk? How do you define punk?' Here's how I define punk: It's a free space. It could… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
It doesn't hurt me on a personal level, but it hurts me on a larger level of like, why are people so… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
I don't think it's an ethical or moral issue, or even that people are stupid, but I do feel like as a… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
I put my name on that Occupy Musicians list because someone wrote to me and said, "Would you do this?" I said,… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
All we wanted to do was to make live records all available. For us, the idea is to make it all available… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
You can hear a real shift. You listen to the late 80s recordings, you'll hear us engaging with the audience, dealing with… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
The fact that the U.S. government spends millions of dollars to send murderous robot planes into other people's land to murder them,… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
I think about Dischord. There's been a pretty consistent notion that Dischord have been some sort of "overlords" of the scene. Some… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
Truth is, right now two bombs could drop out of the sky and blow up this house and whatever building you're in and just… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share
The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share
What people don't understand is that the underground that existed was created in the early 80s and was thriving throughout the 80s. Until the… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share
I think that people are constantly thinking about capturing things that they're not actually present for the moment they're trying to capture. I'm quite… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share
I'd much rather talk to a 30-year old that survived rough times in their lives [practicing Straight Edge] rather than someone that was harmed… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share
For most people who have or who do identify as or with [song] Straight Edge, I feel like for most people, they're just trying… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share
The Corcoran show was actually almost a reportage. The exhibit was, in many ways, pretty unique. It was one of the first pieces about… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share
The Fugazi Live Series site, when we realized the Internet, the way it works - the speeds and its development - made it possible… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share
I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them. — Ian MacKaye Copy Share
An unlocked door means that, occasionally, you might get a devil come in, but a locked door means you have thousands of angels just… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share
I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share
I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share
Guy Picciotto had a really sound point: Live albums basically have bands playing songs that are available on studio records, and what example can… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share
I think that the idea of straight edge, the song that I wrote, and the way people have related it it, there's some people… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share
