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Steven "Steve" Albini (pronounced /ælˈbiːni/; born July 22, 1962) is an American musician, record producer, audio engineer and music journalist. He was a member of Big Black, Rapeman and Flour, and is a member of Shellac. He is the founder, owner and principal engineer of Electrical Audio, a recording studio complex in Chicago. In 2004, Albini said that he had worked on "probably as many as 1500" albums. He has had major influence on the development of genres such as noise rock, post-hardcore and math rock.

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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

Exhausted, People, Rocks, Sound, Techniques, Thinking

I do not want and will not take a royalty on any record I record. I think paying a royalty to a producer or engineer is ethically indefensible. The band write the songs. The band play the music. It's the band's fans who buy the records. The band is responsible for whether it's a great record or a horrible record. Royalties belong to the band. I would like to be paid like a plumber. I do the job and you pay me what it's worth.

Jobs, Paying, Record, Royalty, Song, Writing

I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it.

Business, Mainstream Culture, Music, Racket, Way

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.

Cooking, Eat, Extraordinarily, Restaurant, Three, Would Be

It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this

Artist, Betrays, Hubris, Limiting, Thinking

I think fashion is repulsive. The whole idea that someone else can make clothing that is supposed to be in style and make other people look good is ridiculous. It sickens me to think that there is an industry that plays to the low self-esteem of the general public. I would like the fashion industry to collapse.

Collapse, Fashion, Public, Self Esteem, Style, Thinking

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

Band, Contract, Labels, Wait, Waiting, Willing

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

Conventional Wisdom, Doubt, Reason, Unless, Wisdom

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

Fall, Fashion, Mostly, Permanently, Thinking

New York has magnificent eating available, both in restaurants and in the materials available to home cooks in the many specialty markets.

New York, Home, Eating, Specialty, Magnificent

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.

Bring, Children, Drama, People, Taste, Television

Buy groceries and feed yourself, even on the road

Buy, Feed, Groceries, Road

My dad, Frank Addison Albini, was a terrific shot with a rifle and had generally excellent hunting skills. While my dad loved hunting and fishing, he didnt romanticize them. He was filling the freezer, not intellectualizing some caveman impulse or proving his worth as a real man.

Addison, Dad, Frank, Freezer, Men, Real

I learned to cook from my mom. Most of what I ate growing up was Italian cooking.

Mom, Growing Up, Italian, Cooking, Cook, Growing

Over the last thirty years or so, I have definitely become more enlightened about corners of the social spectrum that I had less exposure to as a young man. I've interacted with more poor people, more minorities and more sexual minorities. As you get more people from different backgrounds involved in your life, you get a broader perspective and you're less cavalier about your opinions.

Exposure, Men, People, Perspective, Social, Spectrum

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.

Actual, Black, Chicago, Demo, Friends, Tape

I'm only interested in working on records that legitimately reflect the band's own perception of their music and existence. If you commit yourselves to that as a tenet of the recording methodology, then I will bust my ass for you.

Band, Commit, Perception, Records, Reflect

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

Band, Bands, Industry, Rocks, Wise

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.

Attention, Command, People, Room, Rooms, Tall

I want to be in cahoots with bands who want to make the record of their dreams.

Band, Bands, Cahoots, Dream, Dreams, Records

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