When you're in a band and write a song on your own, it isn't fully realized until it goes into somebody else's… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
When children start to speak they find their own voice by imitating the sounds around them. It would follow that bands do… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
I'm basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all. I don't take anything back,… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
You had bands like D.O.A., or Black Flag, and a whole network opened up to trailblazer a counter culture movement. I'm more… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
We had punks literally protesting Fugazi. I respect a boycott. I respect a conscionable boycott, but of all bands to boycott? Fight… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
I've had people call me from bands that are very popular, and they're like, 'What do we do? We want to do… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
My focus is always on the day. What I've done behind me, I try to have respect for it, and keep an… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
I'm not talking about what came later [after the American underground punk scene], indie music, or whatever you want to call it,… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
I consider the guitar a tool for the most part. I do pick up the acoustic now and then, I certainly don't… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
Trenchmouth, really great band. Here's a photo of them in 1979 playing the Valley Green projects. It was an incredible, unusual experience.… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The… — 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
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