List of Ian MacKaye Quotes

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.

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.

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.

I'm Basically In Every Band I Ever Was In, And The Songs, I Still Mean Them All. I Don't Take Anything Back, So I Do Look After Them To Some Degree. But My Main Focus Is On What I'm Doing Now.

Archiving Is Extremely Expensive And Time Consuming. I'm Sure An Archivist Would Tell Me I'm Doing It Wrong. It's An Industry That's Built Upon Essential Ideas, And Some Of Those Practices Are Abusive.

You Had Bands Like D.o.a., Or Black Flag, And A Whole Network Opened Up To Trailblazer A Counter Culture Movement. I'm More Interested In The Less Sensational Type Of Stories.

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.

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.

I Had A Bartender Friend Once Tell Me About A $14.00 Shot Of Vodka, This Was Years Ago It's Probably More Now. I Thought That Was Crazy. From What I Understand, Vodka Has No Taste. I Think People Like The Taste Of Their Money.

I Think About Dischord. There's Been A Pretty Consistent Notion That Dischord Have Been Some Sort Of "overlords" Of The Scene. Some People Have Felt 'they Are Too Cool For Us,' Or 'they Won't Put This Out,' Etc. All We're Doing Is Our Own Work, Our Own Thing. That's All We've Ever Done. Our Work.

There's Also A Lot Of Skateboard Stuff, Because I Was A Skateboarder. Somewhere Around Here I Have One Of My Original Boards.

Trenchmouth, Really Great Band. Here's A Photo Of Them In 1979 Playing The Valley Green Projects. It Was An Incredible, Unusual Experience. We Ran A Cord Through The Window And Plugged The Pa And Amps Into That And Played Right In The Courtyard. It Was An Incredible Experience. It Was Just Local Kids.