Best Ian MacKaye Quotes
- 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 to… Anyone
- I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an… Done Thousands
- I've had people call me from bands that are very popular, and they're like, 'What do we do? We want to do what you do.'… Almost Impossible
- Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer… Band
- My focus is always on the day. What I've done behind me, I try to have respect for it, and keep an eye on it,… Abuse
- When children start to speak they find their own voice by imitating the sounds around them. It would follow that bands do the same. Bands… Band
- With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a… Concern
- There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though… Critical
- An unlocked door means that, occasionally, you might get a devil come in, but a locked door means you have thousands of angels just walk… Angel
- I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry… Affair
- I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of… Been
- I was into Ted Nugent, I was a Nugent guy. I was a skateboarder listening to Ted Nugent. Guy
- I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though.… Artwork
- Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the… Always Busy
- When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good… Free
- I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of… Communal
- What I find interesting as a 40-year-old is the idea of trying to be a part of a pronounced, continuing independent culture. The basic tenet… America
- Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the… Create