When children start to speak they find their own voice by imitating the sounds around them. It would follow that bands do the same. Bands will find their own voice at some point. Ian MacKaye Read Quote
Ultimately, I’m not the most prolific person, but I’ve been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it. Ian MacKaye Read Quote
I feel completely fortunate to have this outlet for something I don’t really feel like I have a choice in, to make music. I’ve got to make it. Ian MacKaye Read Quote
My focus is always on the day. What I’ve done behind me, I try to have respect for it, and keep an eye on it, and make sure it isn’t abused, and obviously be thoughtful about it, because it’s all real to me. I’m basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all. Ian MacKaye Read Quote
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. Ian MacKaye Read Quote
With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there’s a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn’t let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music. Ian MacKaye Read Quote
American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it’s profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It’s just about sucking everything up. Ian MacKaye Read Quote
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. Ian MacKaye Read Quote
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. Ian MacKaye Read Quote
