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. Ian MacKaye Read Quote
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. Ian MacKaye Read Quote
There are many things that people do happily that I can’t imagine why they would do it… But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I’m not critical of people individually. We are who we are. Ian MacKaye Read Quote
I was into Ted Nugent, I was a Nugent guy. I was a skateboarder listening to Ted Nugent. Ian MacKaye Read Quote
I stand behind all the lyrics I’ve ever written; I don’t have a problem with that. Ian MacKaye Read Quote
I don’t dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don’t think it was a joke, I don’t think it was funny or a phase, I don’t think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don’t distance myself from any of it. Ian MacKaye Read Quote
I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry is an insidious affair. It’s this terrible collision between art and commerce, and it will always be that way. Ian MacKaye Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
