164 Quotes by Ian Mackaye

I’m always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.

I obviously use computers. My car is wondrous. My phone is amazing. I’ve already talked about the music I’m digitizing. Technology is fantastic, of course.

Now anyone can move anywhere. I’ve made deep connections with people around the world since I tour everywhere that I will simply never see again.

Record labels have enjoyed a 100-year monopoly of selling plastic and now they’re up against a different format.

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

I think about Dischord. There’s been a pretty consistent notion that Dischord have been some sort of “overlords” of the scene. Some people have felt ’they are too cool for us, or they won’t put this out, etc. All we’re doing is our own work, our own thing. That’s all we’ve ever done. Our work.

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

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.

It’s just hard to have a nuanced discussion with like a thousand people, 30 of which are white-power skinheads.