164 Quotes by Ian Mackaye

Let's say for instance people say, "He's a really totalitarian, strict guy, he's hard to work with or whatever." I don't think it's true, but people's perception of me leads that direction, like I'm a fundamentalist person. I end up having to spend extra time saying, "I'm not a fundamentalist." I have other stuff to do.

I think it's my nature to engage in things that are more difficult.

When someone writes a really nasty piece about me. I think they're generally untrue because I think I'm a nice person.

It doesn't hurt me on a personal level, but it hurts me on a larger level of like, why are people so stupid? Why do we have to go through these unnecessary exercises. Fight crime, don't fight me. If you really want to make a difference don't fight me or Fugazi.

The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.

People will say "You must miss playing to a thousand people." But I don't. I might miss playing. That's what I would miss, but I don't miss it, because I am playing.

My humor is very dry. To me it doesn't make sense.

It's so interesting that humanity has to be defined by emotional strife or something. I don't buy into that.

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.