Ian MacKaye Quotes About Making Money

Quotes about: Making Money

• 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

  Labels, Showing Up, Making Money

• Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.

  Ian MacKaye

  People, Community, Playing Music

• The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.

  Ian MacKaye

  Moving, Rivers, People

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 5, 1999.

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