"Every song I ever wrote, I wrote to be heard. So, if I was given a choice that 50 years from now I could either have a dollar or knowing that some kid was listening to my song, I'd go with the kid listening to my song."

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Source : "Ian MacKaye, D.C. Rocker’s Library Of Congress Lecture: The Most Interesting Snippets" By Will Wrigley, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 14, 2013.

Ian MacKaye

#Song Quotes #Kids Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“DSM-IV is the fabrication upon which psychiatry seeks acceptance by medicine in general. Insiders know it is more a political than scientific documentâ€¦ DSM-IV has become a bible and a money making bestsellerâ€”its major failings notwithstanding.”
“The need always to lie and always to avoid the truth stripped everyone of what Custine called 'the two greatest gifts of God-the soul and the speech which communicates it.' People became hypocritical, cunning, mistrustful, cynical, silent, cruel, and indifferent to the fate of others as a result of the destruction of their own souls.”
“Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.”
“We sell only fresh fruit and vegetables. I sell no saturated fats or anything like that.”
“True universalists are not those who preach global tolerance of differences and all-encompassing unity, but those who engage in a passionate struggle for the assertion of the Truth which compels them.”
“If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.”
“Success is one thing you can't pay for. You buy it on the installment plan and make payments everyday.”
“At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.”

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