"I never, ever had it in my mind……" — Ian MacKaye
"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 is an insidious affair. It's this terrible collision between art and commerce, and it will always be that way."
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43 Quotes by Ian MacKaye
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I think that people are constantly thinking about capturing things that they're not actually present for the moment they're trying…
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I think that the idea of straight edge, the song that I wrote, and the way people have related it…
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Every song I ever wrote, I wrote to be heard. So, if I was given a choice that 50 years…
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People ask me: ‘What is punk? How do you define punk?' Here's how I define punk: It's a free space.…
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and…
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Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted…
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Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're…
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If You Want To Rebel Against Society, Don’t Dull The Blade
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We play loud electric guitar music, and we'd hope that that doesn't mean you have to act like an asshole.
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I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought…
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The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded…
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The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation…
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The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of…
— Charles Babbage
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The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
— Irving Babbitt
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
— Honore de Balzac
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I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect…
— Roger Bannister
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
— Saint Basil
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one…
— Arnold Bennett
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I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.
— Sophie Ellis Bextor
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they…
— Aeschylus
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