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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.
Ian MacKaye
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Ian MacKaye
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: April 16
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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 a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.
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Let's say for instance people say, He's a really totalitarian, strict guy, he's hard to work with or whatever. I don't think it's true, but people's perception of me leads that direction, like I'm a fundamentalist person. I end up having to spend extra time saying, I'm not a fundamentalist. I have other stuff to do.
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I have other projects to do. I try not to let that documentation interfere with my present day.
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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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The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.
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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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Trenchmouth, really great band. Here's a photo of them in 1979 playing the Valley Green projects. It was an incredible, unusual experience. We ran a cord through the window and plugged the PA and amps into that and played right in the courtyard. It was an incredible experience. It was just local kids.
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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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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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Why do we celebrate the opening of a bar so much?
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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 illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.
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It's so interesting that humanity has to be defined by emotional strife or something. I don't buy into that.
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The archiving industry, much like the funeral industry and the wedding industry, these industries can be very exploitative.
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My humor is very dry. To me it doesn't make sense.
Ian MacKaye
Structures can be manipulated for ill as well, especially when people are dealing with issues of power, or control, or violence.
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I don't watch TV but occasionally I'll read the Washington Post. I will say that sports are the only real thing on television.
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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 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 think it's my nature to engage in things that are more difficult.
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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.
Ian MacKaye
