“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.” PeopleDifferentLanguageCommunityBandMusic IsProfitMilesMaking MoneyVeinsDifferent PeoplesPlaying MusicNonprofits Author:Ian MacKaye
“Record labels have enjoyed a 100-year monopoly of selling plastic and now they're up against a different format.” YearsDifferentRecordsSellingEnjoyedLabelsPlasticMonopolyFormatRecord Labels Author:Ian MacKaye
“In the late 90s, there was a reverse. Everyone would stand stock still and be so attentive and quiet. But then, it was almost like, "C'mon people! Engage - make a show with us!" You can hear these different eras pass through in the recordings.” PeopleDifferentQuiet Author:Ian MacKaye
“Truth is, right now two bombs could drop out of the sky and blow up this house and whatever building you're in and just obliterate Dischord and Pitchfork. And there'll be some people crying, there'll be some slow singing, but for 99% of the world, it won't even affect the fly on their soup. Most of the world never have, or ever will hear of me, Fugazi, or Pitchfork. Right now, someone just got killed in Ukraine. Do you feel any different?” PeopleWorldDifferentHouseCryBuildingTruth IsSingingBlow Author:Ian MacKaye
“I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.” WayFeelsYearsKindDifferentCultureWalksPathPerceptionDistanceDifferent KindsMainstreamDifferent PathsMainstream Society Author:Ian MacKaye
“Skateboarding is not a hobby. And it is not a sport. Skateboarding is a way of learning how to redefine the world around you. For most people, when they saw a swimming pool, they thought, ‘Let's take a swim.' But I thought, ‘Let's ride it.' When they saw the curb or a street, they would think about driving on it. I would think about the texture. I slowly developed the ability to look at the world through totally different means.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayLooksMeanDifferentSportsAbilitySawsStreetsDrivingSwimSwimmingPoolHobbiesTextureCurbSwimming PoolSkateboardingDriving On Author:Ian MacKaye
