Ian MacKaye Quotes - Page 5

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• Columbia Heights was a poor, messed up area, and the church was in the middle of it. What happened inside was a reflection of the community. I actually saw my first rock concert on the altar of that church [St. Stephen's].

  Ian MacKaye

  Reflection, Rocks, Community

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I don't watch TV but occasionally I'll read the Washington Post. I will say that sports are the only "real thing" on television.

  Ian MacKaye

  Sports, Real, Watches

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• As hard as you try and create narratives about sports, once the ball is in the air, there's not a damn thing you can do about it, it's just very real.

  Ian MacKaye

  Sports, Real, Air

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I'm not a sports guy. However it's interesting to be in a place where people have a sporting fever. One time I was in Italy during one of the European soccer cups, and it's interesting because it's so electrifying.

  Ian MacKaye

  Soccer, Sports, People

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• The Fugazi Live Series site, when we realized the Internet, the way it works - the speeds and its development - made it possible to have one source of infinite copies, was incredible for us. Using tapes or CD's to make copies would have been so unwieldy. We have shows that have zero downloads, which makes me sad, but they're all freely available at any time. The most downloaded show was the one with the best audio quality, but I didn't think it was a very interesting show.

  Ian MacKaye

  Zero, Thinking, Cds

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Guy Picciotto had a really sound point: Live albums basically have bands playing songs that are available on studio records, and what example can you think of where the live album is better? What are the great live albums? I have live albums of bands, but I wouldn't listen to them for the most part. So we thought, instead of spending energy trying to puzzle out how to create a live record, let's just write another studio record.

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  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• I have other projects to do. I try not to let that documentation interfere with my present day.

  Ian MacKaye

  Trying, Documentation, Projects

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I actually looked up in my journal trying to figure out some dates and, in January 1991, America is about to go back into its first sort of actual war since Vietnam, with the Gulf War. It just seemed unbelievable at the time that this country would do that - which is funny to think about now.

  Ian MacKaye

  Country, War, Thinking

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• As far as the bands that are reforming now, it's always nice to see old friends and hear some of those great songs, but it's just not our thing.

  Ian MacKaye

  Song, Nice, Old Friends

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• Ultimately, if circumstances line-up in a way that makes it possible for Fugazi to play and the desire was there, we would do that.

  Ian MacKaye

  Desire, Circumstances

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• 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.

  Ian MacKaye

  Kids, Valleys, Band

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• The archiving industry, much like the funeral industry and the wedding industry, these industries can be very exploitative.

  Ian MacKaye

  Funeral, Industry

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• One of my friends was a stage hand at a Bob Dylan show in the mid-90s and I remember him telling me that somebody crowd surfed during the gig. And this friend of mine was an old punk rock guy - he was totally humiliated by it. But some of Bob's people were there and they said, "Oh, Bob will be so excited! This is the kind of energy we want at his shows." That's where the old school was at.

  Ian MacKaye

  School, People, Guy

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• There's also a lot of skateboard stuff, because I was a skateboarder. Somewhere around here I have one of my original boards.

  Ian MacKaye

  Boards, Stuff, Skateboarder

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• 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.

  Ian MacKaye

  Ideas, Practice, Essentials

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• In the 90s, there was a yahoo factor where there would be 50 people crowd surfing at one time! It was insane, and it had nothing to do with the music.

  Ian MacKaye

  People, Surfing, Insane

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• 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.

  Ian MacKaye

  Crazy, Thinking, Years

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• 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

  Song, Years, Piano

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Self, Playing Music

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• 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.

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  Song, Mean, Focus

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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

  Children, Voice, Sound

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