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I've always been a bit of a documentarian.
— Ian MacKaye
I do not consider myself a teddybear. Just to be clear, I don't feel sorry for myself.
— Ian MacKaye
There's also a lot of skateboard stuff, because I was a skateboarder. Somewhere around here I have one of my original boards.
— Ian MacKaye
What does bother me is that I have to spend time and energy dealing with the ramifications of what people do think about me.
— Ian MacKaye
Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten, and Ian MacKaye were all people who really made me see things differently.
— Henry Rollins
I never imagine myself as anything. I've never had a goal or any future vision at all. I just do what's in front of me.
— Ian MacKaye
I have other projects to do. I try not to let that documentation interfere with my present day.
— Ian MacKaye
The archiving industry, much like the funeral industry and the wedding industry, these industries can be very exploitative.
— Ian MacKaye
When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance.
— Ian MacKaye
I don't watch TV but occasionally I'll read the Washington Post. I will say that sports are the only "real thing" on television.
— Ian MacKaye
It's so interesting that humanity has to be defined by emotional strife or something. I don't buy into that.
— Ian MacKaye
Record labels have enjoyed a 100-year monopoly of selling plastic and now they're up against a different format.
— Ian MacKaye
The amount of money that people spend on saving stuff, they try to feed you this idea that's it's more important.
— Ian MacKaye
An unlocked door means that, occasionally, you might get a devil come in, but a locked door means you have thousands of angels just walk by.
— Ian MacKaye
As hard as you try and create narratives about sports, once the ball is in the air, there's not a damn thing you can do about it, it's just very real.
— 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.
— Ian MacKaye
We play loud electric guitar music, and we'd hope that that doesn't mean you have to act like an asshole.
— Ian MacKaye
I was into Ted Nugent, I was a Nugent guy. I was a skateboarder listening to Ted Nugent.
— Ian MacKaye
Bars are meeting places and places to unwind. But at some point, what is culture unwinding from, and why can't they meet anywhere else?
— Ian MacKaye
It's just hard to have a nuanced discussion with like a thousand people, 30 of which are white-power skinheads.
— Ian MacKaye
Why do we celebrate the opening of a bar so much?
— Ian MacKaye
My humor is very dry. To me it doesn't make sense.
— 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.
— Ian MacKaye
To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
— Ian MacKaye
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.
— Ian MacKaye
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
I just have work to do; I just do it.
— Ian MacKaye
When someone writes a really nasty piece about me. I think they're generally untrue because I think I'm a nice person.
— Ian MacKaye