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Quote by Ian MacKaye
I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on t

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. – Ian MacKaye

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I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but… I have a reputation of – people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow. – Ian MacKaye

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With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But theres a lot of good that could happen. We shouldnt let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music. – Ian MacKaye

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Im always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them. – Ian MacKaye

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