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I just have work to do; I just do it.
I've always been a bit of a documentarian.
We're on tour for six months out of the year.
To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
Why do we celebrate the opening of a bar so much?
My humor is very dry. To me it doesn't make sense.
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The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.
I think it's my nature to engage in things that are more difficult.
We were not a band that typically would say, "Hello, Whatever Town!"
I have a lot of stuff. Slowly I'm getting all my materials organized.
The American underground punk scene, though, is a story worth remembering.
I'm not a sports dude, but I'm interested in the sociological implications of it.
I stand behind all the lyrics I've ever written; I don't have a problem with that.
I do not consider myself a teddybear. Just to be clear, I don't feel sorry for myself.
I was into Ted Nugent, I was a Nugent guy. I was a skateboarder listening to Ted Nugent.
I have other projects to do. I try not to let that documentation interfere with my present day.
1991 for some people was a significant year in terms of punk rock. It was the year "punk broke".
We play loud electric guitar music, and we'd hope that that doesn't mean you have to act like an asshole.
It's so interesting that humanity has to be defined by emotional strife or something. I don't buy into that.
It's just hard to have a nuanced discussion with like a thousand people, 30 of which are white-power skinheads.
The amount of money that people spend on saving stuff, they try to feed you this idea that it's more important.
Record labels have enjoyed a 100-year monopoly of selling plastic and now they're up against a different format.
If people want new music then they are going to have to figure out a way to be patrons of the arts. And they will.
When you're in a band and write a song on your own, it isn't fully realized until it goes into somebody else's ears.
When someone writes a really nasty piece about me. I think they're generally untrue because I think I'm a nice person.
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.
I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.
The archiving industry, much like the funeral industry and the wedding industry, these industries can be very exploitative.
What does bother me is that I have to spend time and energy dealing with the ramifications of what people do think about me.
There's also a lot of skateboard stuff, because I was a skateboarder. Somewhere around here I have one of my original boards.
Structures can be manipulated for ill as well, especially when people are dealing with issues of power, or control, or violence.
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.
Ultimately, if circumstances line-up in a way that makes it possible for Fugazi to play and the desire was there, we would do that.
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?
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.
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.
I feel completely fortunate to have this outlet for something I don't really feel like I have a choice in, to make music. I've got to make it.
As far as the bands that are reforming now, it's always nice to see old friends and hear some of those great songs, but it's just not our thing.
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.
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.
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.
In the 90s, there was a yahoo factor where there would be 50 people crowd surfing at one time! It was insane, and it had nothing to do with the music.
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.
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.
I obviously use computers. My car is wondrous. My phone is amazing. I've already talked about the music I'm digitizing. Technology is fantastic, of course.
I appreciate the past, but I want to make new things. That's the problem with the sack on the back - if you carry it around with you, it's like you get hobbled.
People will say "You must miss playing to a thousand people." But I don't. I might miss playing. That's what I would miss, but I don't miss it, because I am playing.
I'd much rather talk to a 30-year old that survived rough times in their lives [practicing Straight Edge] rather than someone that was harmed by a culture of violence.
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.