Almost any decent cook will make food by eye and taste. Virtually all of my family cooked that way. Steve Albini Read Quote
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. Steve Albini Read Quote
It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this. Steve Albini Read Quote
The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which never happens. Steve Albini Read Quote
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. Don’t sign anything. Steve Albini Read Quote
As a recording engineer – someone who is deeply embroiled in the process of making records every day – you see trends and fads run through the social organization of the population of musicians in the same way that they would run through a high school. Steve Albini Read Quote
In the late ’80s and early ’90s, there was a slightly retro drum sound that was popular in hip-hop music called the 808 bass drum sound. It was the bass drum sound on the 808 drum machine, and it’s very deep and very resonant, and was used as the backbone as a lot of classic hip-hop tracks. Steve Albini Read Quote
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. Steve Albini Read Quote
