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.

— Steve Albini

Steve Albini Quotes

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.

— Steve Albini

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.

— Steve Albini

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

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.

— Steve Albini

I moved to Chicago in 1980 to go to college.

— Steve Albini

Buy groceries and feed yourself, even on the road.

— Steve Albini

Make no mistake about it: once a band has signed a letter of intent, they will either eventually sign a contract that suits the label or they will be destroyed.

— Steve Albini

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

Of the people who cook on television, I have admired people like Jacques Pepin, Julia Child, Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver and a few others because they are free of drama, display good taste and masterful technique, and use clear exposition to bring you up to speed.

— Steve Albini

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

— Steve Albini

If I were a gambling man I would put all my money on there not being anything other than this universe.

— Steve Albini

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.

— Steve Albini

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

It always offended me when I was in the studio and the engineer or the assumed producer for the session would start bossing the band around. That always seemed like a horrible insult to me.

— Steve Albini

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.

— Steve Albini

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.

— Steve Albini

I wouldn’t mind being taller, because when I’m in the company of people who are absurdly tall, there’s something about them that I can’t help admiring.

— Steve Albini

I think good-looking naked ladies turn on the majority of men.

— Steve Albini

What’s the most outrageous thing I’ve ever done? Let’s just say I don’t think I’ve done it yet. The most outrageous thing is yet to come.

— Steve Albini

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.

— Steve Albini
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