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Music Quotes by Steve Albini
- Find people who think like you and stick with them. Make only music you are passionate about. Work only with people you like and trust.…
- 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 that…
- I do not want and will not take a royalty on any record I record. I think paying a royalty to a producer or engineer…
- The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally for free,
- Record labels, which used to have complete control, are essentially irrelevant. The process of a band exposing itself to the world is extremely democratic and…
- By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum
- We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are…
More Music Quotes
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- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
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- Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. — Louis Armstrong
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- What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
- If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. — Louis Armstrong
- We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. — Louis Armstrong