Cooks Quote by 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 too tall.

— 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 it.

— 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 yourselves to…

— 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. If any…

— Steve Albini

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

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 operated in…

— Steve Albini

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

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

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

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 bothered. It's…

— Steve Albini