Top 60 Ian Mackaye Quotes (2024 Update)
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Ian Mackaye Quote: “The American underground punk scene, though, is a story worth remembering.”

51. “The American underground punk scene, though, is a story worth remembering.”

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Ian Mackaye Quote: “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.”

52. “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

Ian Mackaye 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.”

53. “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

Ian Mackaye Quote: “I wouldn’t characterize it as an 80s nostalgia thing. For me, at least. The Corcoran show was actually almost a reportage. The exhibit was, in many ways, pretty unique. It was one of the first pieces about DC culture that doesn’t include some marble building or the Kennedy Center.”

54. “I wouldn’t characterize it as an 80s nostalgia thing. For me, at least. The Corcoran show was actually almost a reportage. The exhibit was, in many ways, pretty unique. It was one of the first pieces about DC culture that doesn’t include some marble building or the Kennedy Center.”

— Ian Mackaye

Ian Mackaye Quote: “I’m not a sports dude, but I’m interested in the sociological implications of it.”

55. “I’m not a sports dude, but I’m interested in the sociological implications of it.”

— Ian Mackaye

Ian Mackaye Quote: “I think it’s my nature to engage in things that are more difficult.”

56. “I think it’s my nature to engage in things that are more difficult.”

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Ian Mackaye Quote: “Getting your letters or pictures digitized. I don’t think it’s that important. The more you spend on your materials, you’re given the sense that those things are more important due to the total amount spent. You’d probably be better off giving that money to a soup kitchen.”

57. “Getting your letters or pictures digitized. I don’t think it’s that important. The more you spend on your materials, you’re given the sense that those things are more important due to the total amount spent. You’d probably be better off giving that money to a soup kitchen.”

— Ian Mackaye

Ian Mackaye Quote: “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.”

58. “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.”

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Ian Mackaye Quote: “The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, ‘Wow, check that out.’ It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense – it was pleasurable. I was like, ‘You sound like a band.’ Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.”

59. “The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, ‘Wow, check that out.’ It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense – it was pleasurable. I was like, ‘You sound like a band.’ Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.”

— Ian Mackaye

Ian Mackaye Quote: “I’ve done thousands of interviews in my life, and it’s a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I’m navigating this world that I’m in.”

60. “I’ve done thousands of interviews in my life, and it’s a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I’m navigating this world that I’m in.”

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Ian Mackaye Quote: “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.”

61. “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.”

— Ian Mackaye

Ian Mackaye Quote: “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.”

62. “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.”

— Ian Mackaye

Ian Mackaye 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.”

63. “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

Ian Mackaye Quote: “My humor is very dry. To me it doesn’t make sense.”

64. “My humor is very dry. To me it doesn’t make sense.”

— Ian Mackaye

Ian Mackaye Quote: “I’ve had people call me from bands that are very popular, and they’re like, ‘What do we do? We want to do what you do.’ It’s almost impossible to do what I do, because you would have to start in 1980. You can’t just do it.”

65. “I’ve had people call me from bands that are very popular, and they’re like, ‘What do we do? We want to do what you do.’ It’s almost impossible to do what I do, because you would have to start in 1980. You can’t just do it.”

— Ian Mackaye

Ian Mackaye Quote: “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.”

66. “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

Ian Mackaye Quote: “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.”

67. “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

Ian Mackaye Quote: “I’ve always been a bit of a documentarian.”

68. “I’ve always been a bit of a documentarian.”

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Ian Mackaye Quote: “I have a lot of stuff. Slowly I’m getting all my materials organized.”

69. “I have a lot of stuff. Slowly I’m getting all my materials organized.”

— Ian Mackaye

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