The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
As a recording engineer - someone who is deeply embroiled in the process of making records every day - you see trends… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
Cranking the Auto-Tune is so easy to do that there's almost no systemic resistance to trying it. So when someone's stuck for… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
I do not want and will not take a royalty on any record I record. I think paying a royalty to a… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
In the late '80s and early '90s, there was a slightly retro drum sound that was popular in hip-hop music called the… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
When people are absurdly tall, they command everyone's attention when they walk into a room. Nobody's ever dismissive of somebody for being too tall. — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
Clip your year-end column and put it away for 10 years. See if you don’t feel like an idiot when you reread it. — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
I'm only interested in working on records that legitimately reflect the band's own perception of their music and existence. If you commit yourselves to… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
You see something happen to a population whereby everyone adopts something that's just preposterous in a way that makes it normal instantly. If any… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
Suicide was such a formative band for me, so influential in the development of my taste. They're one of those bands that operated in… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
I feel like bands should be growing, living, functioning entities and to crystallize a band into a single album, and for that to be… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
When I'm in a restaurant, I don't eat red meat. It doesn't taste like anything. But if a friend of mine is grilling stuff… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
Cooking is about presenting flavors and other aspects of food in a way that makes best use of them and makes an engaging, satisfying… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
I'm not a particularly good cook. Part of it is that it is the kind of cooking anybody could do if they bothered. It's… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
