#la

I think we plan everything, somehow, on another level. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#everything #i #i think #level #plan

Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#business #ever #going #labels #major

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

I don't have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#assistant #i #lot #make #me

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

Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#always #basically #create #created #did

I consider the guitar a tool for the most part. I do pick up the acoustic now and then, I certainly don't have any routine. Usually the only time I practice is when the band gets together. Hendrix has always been one of my favorite players, but I was a sucker for Nugent in the late 1970's. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#always #any #band #been #certainly

I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#come #consider #early #i #i can

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

— Catharine MacKinnon

#feels #i #politically #sex #violated

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

#could #course #economic #end #exploit