Famous Quotes

"With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music."

Ian MacKaye on Freedom

More quotes about Freedom

• "Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged."

  Ronald Reagan on Freedom

• "For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."

  Nelson Mandela on Freedom

• "If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."

  Dwight D. Eisenhower on Freedom

• "I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."

  Robert A. Heinlein on Freedom

• "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Freedom

More quotes by Ian MacKaye

• "Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money."

• "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 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."

• "I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it."

• "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."