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I was into Ted Nugent, I was a Nugent guy. I was a skateboarder listening to Ted Nugent.

Ian MacKaye

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Ian MacKaye
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: April 16
Composer
Guitarist
Singer
Washington
District of Columbia
Skateboarder
Listening
Guy

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Archiving is extremely expensive and time consuming. I'm sure an archivist would tell me I'm doing it wrong. It's an industry that's built upon essential ideas, and some of those practices are abusive.
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I had a bartender friend once tell me about a $14.00 shot of vodka, this was years ago it's probably more now. I thought that was crazy. From what I understand, vodka has no taste. I think people like the taste of their money.
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I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.
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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 riddance.
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Record labels have enjoyed a 100-year monopoly of selling plastic and now they're up against a different format.
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I'm not a sports dude, but I'm interested in the sociological implications of it.
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What does bother me is that I have to spend time and energy dealing with the ramifications of what people do think about me.
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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. I'm sort of a librarian.
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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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There's also a lot of skateboard stuff, because I was a skateboarder. Somewhere around here I have one of my original boards.
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I think it's my nature to engage in things that are more difficult.
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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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Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're trading it I don't mind, obviously if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand.
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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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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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We were not a band that typically would say, Hello, Whatever Town!
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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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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 gathering, and having some sense of peoples.
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We had punks literally protesting Fugazi. I respect a boycott. I respect a conscionable boycott, but of all bands to boycott? Fight crime. If you really want to get out there, go fight crime.
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