Ian MacKaye Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• I think that the idea of straight edge, the song that I wrote, and the way people have related it it, there's some people who have abused it, they've allowed their fundamentalism to interfere with the real message, which in my mind, was that people should be allowed to live their lives the way they want to.

  Ian MacKaye

  Song, Real, Thinking

  Scene Point Blank Interview, www.scenepointblank.com. October 16, 2010.

• Every song I ever wrote, I wrote to be heard. So, if I was given a choice that 50 years from now I could either have a dollar or knowing that some kid was listening to my song, I'd go with the kid listening to my song.

  Ian MacKaye

  Song, Kids, Years

  "Ian MacKaye, D.C. Rocker’s Library Of Congress Lecture: The Most Interesting Snippets" By Will Wrigley, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 14, 2013.

• When you're in a band and write a song on your own, it isn't fully realized until it goes into somebody else's ears.

  Ian MacKaye

  Song, Writing

• 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

  Song, Cds, Mind

• 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.

  Ian MacKaye

  Song, Writing, Thinking

• 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

• 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

• I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.

  Ian MacKaye

  Song, Thinking, People

• My focus is always on the day. What I've done behind me, I try to have respect for it, and keep an eye on it, and make sure it isn't abused, and obviously be thoughtful about it, because it's all real to me. I'm basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all.

  Ian MacKaye

  Song, Real, Mean

  "Ian MacKaye" by Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. February 20, 2007.

• 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

  Song, Mean, Focus

  Source: www.avclub.com

• "Straight Edge" was a song about my life. There was no structure, no premise as if I was forming a club. There were no tenets. I mean I wrote a song called "Straight Edge," I'll take that, but the song was about my life the way I wanted to live it.

  Ian MacKaye

  Song, Mean, Way

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

• For most people who have or who do identify as or with [song] Straight Edge, I feel like for most people, they're just trying to do the right thing.

  Ian MacKaye

  Song, People, Trying

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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