#eve

There are certainly good examples of incredibly brilliant, beautiful music that has been made commercially available and sold everywhere. But I would say that, for the most part, quantity certainly does not speak well for quality. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#beautiful #beautiful music #been #brilliant #certainly

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

#american #business #developing #everything #getting

And in fact, one of the central reasons why I never got involved with any drugs or anything is that I remember talking to people in maybe 1975 who saw Hendrix but couldn't remember it. I was like, 'How could that be?' ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#anything #central #could #fact #got

At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal on a population. America deserves the president it gets, whether the country votes for them or allows their vote to be stolen, and the least we can do is to elect someone who won't do that to other people. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#america #candidate #country #declare #deserves

Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated. ↗

— Catharine MacKinnon

#feels #i #politically #sex #violated

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. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#basically #ever #everything #happened #i

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

#always #art #because #between #collision

I stand behind all the lyrics I've ever written; I don't have a problem with that. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#ever #i #lyrics #problem #stand

Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#band #because #believe #belongs #done

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

#always #band #basically #because #behind