A Quote by Ian MacKaye

All we wanted to do was to make live records all available. For us, the idea is to make it all available and let people decide which ones they like better. It's not for us to decide. We don't care about that. What we're interested in is the idea that we made these recordings, and they're not doing anybody a damn bit of good sitting in a closet.

Ian MacKaye

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Ian MacKaye
American - Musician
Born: April 16, 1962

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