“I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.” WayFeelsLooksPersonsStillsI CanDonePastMemoriesConnectedRelate Author:Ian MacKaye
“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.” PeopleIfsWayFactsMovingWillingRiversSellsProfitComplainingMaking MoneyPolish Author:Ian MacKaye
“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.” ThinkingWorldWayGivingIdeasDoneOpportunityEnjoyGrowthThis WorldGive MeInterviewsFormatGauges Author:Ian MacKaye
“It makes me sad, the way human beings talk smack. It's why I don't like irony. People are too gleeful to put some teeth into something.” PeopleWayHumansHuman BeingsTeethIronySmackSmack Talk Author:Ian MacKaye
“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.” WayFirstsShowsCulturePiecesBuildingUniqueNostalgia80sMarbleExhibits Author:Ian MacKaye
“I jump from one thing to the next but try and strike a balance. But it's not nostalgic in the sense of 'those were the good old days and now we're not there'. I don't think like that. Not my way.” ThinkingWayTryingNextOne ThingBalanceStrikesMy WayOld DaysNostalgicGood Old Days Author:Ian MacKaye
“"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.” IfsWayMeanWantedSongStructureEdgesClubsPremisesStraight Edge Author:Ian MacKaye
“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.” ThinkingWayHas BeensMadeShowsInterestingQualitySourceDevelopmentInternetInfiniteSeriesIncrediblesAvailableSpeedMade ItCopiesZeroTapeSiteVery InterestingCdsDownloadsAudio Author:Ian MacKaye
“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.” WayMindArtStillsWantedRecordsIndustryTerribleAffairCommerceCollisionInsidious 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
“Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.” WorldWayMeanCreatingIllusionBusySeparationWeekendFree Time 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
“I think that people are constantly thinking about capturing things that they're not actually present for the moment they're trying to capture. I'm quite sure of this. I think it's insane how many pictures have to be taken these days. We have to realize there's a level of documentation that's just chatter, it's noise, and beyond that, people who are truly documenting are going to have to find a way to puncture that.” PeopleThinkingWayTryingMomentsRealizingLevelsTakenNoiseInsaneThese DaysCaptureChatterDocumentationPunctureConstantly Thinking Author:Ian MacKaye
“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.” PeopleThinkingWayWantShouldMindIdeasRealSongMessagesEdgesRelatedInterfereFundamentalismStraight Edge Author:Ian MacKaye
