Steve Albini Quotes

Steve Albini — American Musician born on July 22, 1962,

Steven Frank "Steve" Albini is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, 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 located in Chicago. In March 2004, Albini said that the number of albums he had worked on was "probably as many as 1500.".. (wikipedia)

Suicide was such a formative band for me, so influential in the development of my taste. They're one of those bands that operated in absolute isolation for so long that they developed a completely unique world view.

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

If I'm working as an engineer for another band, the responsibility for brilliance pretty much rests on their shoulders. I think I'm pretty good, but I'm not good enough to turn a trout into a sausage, or the other way around.

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

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