A more important reason is that the bands will intuitively trust someone they think is a peer, and who speaks fondly of the same formative rock and roll experiences.More Steve Albini [07/13/2011 03:07:21]

By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum.More Steve Albini [07/13/2011 03:07:33]

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.More Steve Albini [07/13/2011 03:07:45]

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.More Steve Albini [07/13/2011 03:07:51]

I don't think anyone has exhausted the range of sound possible in a conventional rock band, but people do become slaves to their own easiest techniques.More Steve Albini [07/13/2011 03:07:57]

I'm busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesn't appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else.More Steve Albini [07/13/2011 03:07:12]

Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture.More Steve Albini [07/13/2011 03:07:37]

Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food.More Steve Albini [07/13/2011 03:07:50]

There is a lot of use of ProTools in professional studios, but this is mostly for the special effects it allows, not for sound quality. These special effects soon fall out of fashion, and I don't think this trend will define studios permanently.More Steve Albini [07/13/2011 03:07:09]

We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design.More Steve Albini [07/13/2011 03:07:14]

A more important reason is that the bands will intuitively trust someone they think is a peer, and who speaks fondly of the same formative rock and roll experiences.More Steve Albini [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Buy groceries and feed yourself, even on the road.More Steve Albini [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum.More Steve Albini [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.More Steve Albini [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

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.More Steve Albini [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

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.More Steve Albini [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

I don't think anyone has exhausted the range of sound possible in a conventional rock band, but people do become slaves to their own easiest techniques.More Steve Albini [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

I moved to Chicago in 1980 to go to college.More Steve Albini [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

I'm busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesn't appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else.More Steve Albini [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

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.More Steve Albini [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture.More Steve Albini [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

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.More Steve Albini [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record.More Steve Albini [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

My father was an expert hunter, so we ate a lot of wild game when I was growing up in Montana. That helped broaden my palate generally, but I know it informed my distaste for factory farms and unspectacular commercial meat.More Steve Albini [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians, she had never eaten properly prepared meat, only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh.More Steve Albini [03/29/2018 05:03:36]