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I'm a fifth generation Washingtonian and I was born and raised here. My kid's a sixth generation Washingtonian. Honestly I wish people didn't move because I love the people of the city.
Ian MacKaye
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Ian MacKaye
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: April 16
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More quotes by Ian MacKaye
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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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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I have other projects to do. I try not to let that documentation interfere with my present day.
Ian MacKaye
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.
Ian MacKaye
I appreciate the past, but I want to make new things. That's the problem with the sack on the back - if you carry it around with you, it's like you get hobbled.
Ian MacKaye
Record labels have enjoyed a 100-year monopoly of selling plastic and now they're up against a different format.
Ian MacKaye
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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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.
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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.
Ian MacKaye
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.
Ian MacKaye
I don't need any more avenues of communication, and frankly I think people are still working out to realize that it's just a tool[social media] rather than something that you have to do or participate in.
Ian MacKaye
I'm not a sports dude, but I'm interested in the sociological implications of it.
Ian MacKaye
My humor is very dry. To me it doesn't make sense.
Ian MacKaye
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.
Ian MacKaye
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
I think it's my nature to engage in things that are more difficult.
Ian MacKaye
There's also a lot of skateboard stuff, because I was a skateboarder. Somewhere around here I have one of my original boards.
Ian MacKaye
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.
Ian MacKaye
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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