Steve Albini Quotes

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 Big Black

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• The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Important
  • Fun
  • Think

• Your band members? Your band members don't want to be tied to a machine. They want to be playing. That's what the Beatles did. And the Beatles' stuff is timeless. That's what I would suggest. Just get back to sweating, playing hard, hammering, and having a blast.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Want
  • Band
  • Timeless

• The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Faith

• I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • World
  • Band
  • Sacrifice

• I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Band

• I always wanted to be in a boy band since I was a kid.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Band
  • Always
  • Boy

• The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Band
  • Best

• There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Money
  • Band
  • Best

• My school was six miles away from where I lived on the farm. I had to walk and run, there and back every day, through gorges and over rivers. If I was late, there was a very big stick waiting for me.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • School
  • Day
  • Waiting

• I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Think
  • Band
  • Worst

• My biggest luck was the Terry McMillan era, because what happened after the phenomenon of 'Waiting to Exhale' is that publishing woke up. They said, 'Wow. Black people do read.'

  

  Tananarive Due
  • People
  • Up
  • Black

• With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Play
  • Band
  • Rock

• I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Good
  • Song
  • Problem

• What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Song
  • You
  • Band

• I was going to record a solo album when I was 15 on a four-track. I started working on it, but then Fall Out Boy happened. The band was awesome and took me in a totally different direction. I don't regret it at all, but the band delayed the record I had been planning.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Different
  • Me
  • Fall

• If our kids want to do music, they are going to have to have a hard row to hoe just like any other band under the sun, and they're going to have to want it more than anyone else.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Want

• As human beings, we are all flawed. And just like there is a good side, there is also a bad side waiting to find its way out.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Waiting

• Getting up at odd hours to catch flights. I hate the long hours of waiting. There are times when one is continuously travelling, from one city to another, hopping from one studio to another or changing from one costume to another. It is annoying, but after a point, one learns to be immune to one’s surroundings.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Up
  • Long
  • Hate

• The band is a millionaire. We as individuals aren't.

  

  Joe Elliott Def Leppard
  • Band
  • Individuals
  • Millionaire

• The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.

  

  Norman Granz
  • Band
  • Singing
  • Firsts

• I just turned 40, and I look at so many performers and so many people who are actually always on time and always have an album out. They don't have actual lives, in my opinion. I feel like I'm so much more than being famous and meeting a musical quota. And I don't know, just the weight of the scrutiny and attention is too weird for me.

  

  Gerald Maxwell Rivera
  • People
  • Time
  • Attention

• 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 Big Black
  • Band
  • Waiting
  • Hundred