8 Quotes & Sayings By Ian Mackaye

Ian Mackaye was born and raised in Winnipeg, Canada. Before becoming a full-time musician, Mackaye worked as a labourer and as a labourer-turned-musician for the Cat's Cradle Records record label. He is best known as the guitarist and vocalist for the influential punk rock group The Fartz (later renamed Pailhead, and currently known as the Walkmen). The Walkmen's first album, "The Lonesome Crowded West", was released by Touch and Go Records in 1986; it would later receive a critical re-evaluation and be named to Pitchfork Media's list of "Top 50 Albums of the 1980s" and to Entertainment Weekly's "Top 100 Albums of All Time" Read more

Mackaye is also well known for his work as a solo artist.

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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up. My idea was: Enjoy baking, sell your bread, people like it, sell more. Keep the bakery going because you're making good food and people are happy. 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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I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made. Ian Mackaye
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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. Ian Mackaye
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I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples. Ian Mackaye
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There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I'm not critical of people individually. We are who we are. Ian Mackaye
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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