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Music Quotes by Ian MacKaye
- We play loud electric guitar music, and we'd hope that that doesn't mean you have to act like an asshole.
- There are certainly good examples of incredibly brilliant, beautiful music that has been made commercially available and sold everywhere. But I would say that, for…
- To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
- Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
More Music Quotes
- I love recording music. — J. J. Abrams
- Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. — Louis Armstrong
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
- If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. — Louis Armstrong
- We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. — Louis Armstrong