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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 by.

Ian MacKaye

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Ian MacKaye
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: April 16
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Guitarist
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Washington
District of Columbia
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I think what we took away from first hearing about the punk stuff in England and then the early American punk stuff was a sense of self-definition and also sort of playing music for music's sake and being part of a family for family's sake.
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Now anyone can move anywhere. I've made deep connections with people around the world since I tour everywhere that I will simply never see again.
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I always appreciate when people save, and more importantly, share. As we speak, there are people in this world - mostly men - who have giant collections of recordings that no one will ever hear. And the value of that collection is almost defined by the fact that nobody else can hear it.
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My humor is very dry. To me it doesn't make sense.
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I actually looked up in my journal trying to figure out some dates and, in January 1991, America is about to go back into its first sort of actual war since Vietnam, with the Gulf War. It just seemed unbelievable at the time that this country would do that - which is funny to think about now.
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I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.
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If people want new music then they are going to have to figure out a way to be patrons of the arts. And they will.
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I obviously use computers. My car is wondrous. My phone is amazing. I've already talked about the music I'm digitizing. Technology is fantastic, of course.
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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 willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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We were not a band that typically would say, Hello, Whatever Town!
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The amount of money that people spend on saving stuff, they try to feed you this idea that it's more important.
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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 ears.
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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 interested in the less sensational type of stories.
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I do not consider myself a teddybear. Just to be clear, I don't feel sorry for myself.
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I never imagine myself as anything. I've never had a goal or any future vision at all. I just do what's in front of me.
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I think it's my nature to engage in things that are more difficult.
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Why do we celebrate the opening of a bar so much?
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My point of view is, I'm just a person, and there are times when I look at other people and think, 'My God, they spend so much time thinking about things that seem so absurd.' But I'm sure people must think the same thing about me.
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First of all, [St. Stephen's] is a radical church. It was one of the first DC churches to have gay ceremonies. A woman said mass there, which almost got a priest excommunicated there Black Panthers spoke at the church it was a sanctuary for civil rights protesters and anti-war protesters.
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When someone writes a really nasty piece about me. I think they're generally untrue because I think I'm a nice person.
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