Quotes by Steve Albini

Steve Albini

A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a result of the creative impulse finding several means of expression. Probably an equivalent number are visual artists, woodworkers or compulsive liars.

Artist

Liars

Mean

Almost any decent cook will make food by eye and taste. Virtually all of my family cooked that way.

Eye

Taste

Way

Buy groceries and feed yourself, even on the road

Groceries

By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum

Band

Rocks

Wise

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.

Idiot

Year End

Years

Cooking is about presenting flavors and other aspects of food in a way that makes best use of them and makes an engaging, satisfying meal. Taste necessarily comes into it along with technique. Some ingredients require cooking, cleaning or otherwise denaturing them, some are fine as they are.

Cooking

Meals

Technique

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment

Conventional Wisdom

Doubt

Reason

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.

People

Thinking

Trust

For less than the cost of a Big Mac, fries and a Coke, you can buy a loaf of fresh bread and some good cheese or roast beef, which you will enjoy much more.

Air

Bread

Coke

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.

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Band

Black

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Busy

Chicago

Children

Choices

Class

Coke

College

Conventional Wisdom

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Cooks

Crazy

Cute

Dad

Dating

Design

Done

Doubt

Drama

Dream

Drinking

Eating

Enabling

Eye

Fall

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Fashion

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Fundamentals

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Groceries

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Quotes by Steve Albini

Steve Albini

A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a result of the creative impulse finding several means of expression. Probably an equivalent number are visual artists, woodworkers or compulsive liars.

Almost any decent cook will make food by eye and taste. Virtually all of my family cooked that way.

Buy groceries and feed yourself, even on the road

By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum

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.

Cooking is about presenting flavors and other aspects of food in a way that makes best use of them and makes an engaging, satisfying meal. Taste necessarily comes into it along with technique. Some ingredients require cooking, cleaning or otherwise denaturing them, some are fine as they are.

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment

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.

For less than the cost of a Big Mac, fries and a Coke, you can buy a loaf of fresh bread and some good cheese or roast beef, which you will enjoy much more.

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.

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