Steve Albini

When people are absurdly tall, they command everyone's attention when they walk into a room. Nobody's ever dismissive of somebody for being…

— Steve Albini

Clip your year-end column and put it away for 10 years. See if you don’t feel like an idiot when you reread…

— Steve Albini

I'm only interested in working on records that legitimately reflect the band's own perception of their music and existence. If you commit…

— Steve Albini

You see something happen to a population whereby everyone adopts something that's just preposterous in a way that makes it normal instantly.…

— Steve Albini

The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case…

— Steve Albini

By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum

— Steve Albini

Suicide was such a formative band for me, so influential in the development of my taste. They're one of those bands that…

— Steve Albini

I feel like bands should be growing, living, functioning entities and to crystallize a band into a single album, and for that…

— Steve Albini

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…

— Steve Albini

Cooking is about presenting flavors and other aspects of food in a way that makes best use of them and makes an…

— Steve Albini

In heaven, after antipasti, the first course will be pasta.

— Steve Albini

I'm not a particularly good cook. Part of it is that it is the kind of cooking anybody could do if they…

— Steve Albini

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment

— Steve Albini

I'm busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesn't appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had…

— Steve Albini

There won't ever be a mass-market record industry again, and that's fine with me because that industry didn't operate for the benefit…

— Steve Albini

Make no mistake about it: once a band has signed a letter of intent, they will either eventually sign a contract that…

— Steve Albini

I think good-looking naked ladies turn on the majority of men.

— Steve Albini

In terms of other people's perception of me, that's their business. There are people who I have never met but, for whatever…

— Steve Albini

There is a lot of use of ProTools in professional studios, but this is mostly for the special effects it allows, not…

— Steve Albini

The bands that have been the most important to me, and the records that have been the most important to me as…

— Steve Albini

I want to be in cahoots with bands who want to make the record of their dreams.

— Steve Albini

What's the most outrageous thing I've ever done? Let's just say I don't think I've done it yet. The most outrageous thing…

— Steve Albini

The only kind of restaurant I could imagine doing would be the extraordinarily snooty restaurant with three or four tables, and I…

— Steve Albini

Over the last thirty years or so, I have definitely become more enlightened about corners of the social spectrum that I had…

— Steve Albini

If the label presents them with a contract that the band don't want to sign, all the label has to do is…

— Steve Albini