Band Quote by Steve Albini

I have a hard time with musicians who act like pricks because it just makes me mad. I just sit there and I go,…

— Isaac Hanson

There's kind of a double standard: if a musician decides they want to act, everybody falls over themselves. But if you're an actor and…

— Megan Mullally

I always felt, as a listener at a show, that when there was too much banter between the artist and the audience that it…

— Ray LaMontagne

With my classical training and coming from a metal band, producers didn't know what to expect. I like to shock people, though.

— Tarja Turunen

Like any band, including mine, there's a comfort zone that's hard to escape. You kind of need an outsider to tell you that. You…

— Steve Berlin

I think something I've been drawn to about the people I work with is that they seem to be - like me - people…

— Ariel Rechtshaid

The gigs I enjoy are the ones where I'm so angry and paranoid, and I hate the audience so much, that I put everything…

— Mark E. Smith

I wanted to preemptively make myself as available as possible, so it would be impossible for anyone to form the wrong impression and make…

— Owen Pallett

I gave up music criticism because of the increasingly obvious conflict of interest. I couldn't say anything bad about the records when I might…

— Stephin Merritt

I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's completely desecrating a song they thought was one thing,…

— J. Tillman

It's okay if someone is disgusted or offended by my performance. It's just a performance.

— Jenny Zhang

When I was in that group, I just knew it wasn't for me. Every time I went out and we performed in front of…

— Matthew Morrison