List of Steve Albini Quotes

The Band Cannot Sign To Another Label Or Even Put Out Its Own Material Unless They Are Released From Their Agreement, Which Never Happens.

Harmonics Are Vibrations A Fraction Of The Length Of The Vibrating String, Which Add Higher-pitched And More Complex Content To The Notes. With A Dull Instrument, The Harmonics Die Out, But With A Sustaining Instrument, The Harmonics Continue To Sound Along With The Fundamental Note.

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 At His House, Its Almost Always Great.

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.

By Now All Rock Bands Are Wise Enough To Be Suspicious Of Music Industry Scum

The Only Kind Of Restaurant I Could Imagine Doing Would Be The Extraordinarily Snooty Restaurant With Three Or Four Tables, And I Would Cook What I Felt Like Cooking. And You Could Eat It Or Not.

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 Improvisational. I Cook With Whatever I Have Laying Around.

If I Were A Gambling Man I Would Put All My Money On There Not Being Anything Other Than This Universe.

If The Label Presents Them With A Contract That The Band Don't Want To Sign, All The Label Has To Do Is Wait. There Are A Hundred Other Bands Willing To Sign The Exact Same Contract, So The Label Is In A Position Of Strength

I Have No Problem With Bands Using Participant Financing Schemes Like Kickstarter And Such. I've Said Many Times That I Think They're Part Of The New Way Bands And Their Audience Interact And They Can Be A Fantastic Resource, Enabling Bands To Do Things Essentially In Cooperation With Their Audience. It's Pretty Amazing, Actually.

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.

I Hate 'foodie' Because It's Cute, Like Pretty Much All Diminutives Associated With Eating. 'veggies,' 'sammies,' 'parm.' I Eat Food, And I Cook It: It's For Eating, Preferably With Friends, And I Don't Make A Fetish Out Of It.