Steve Albini Quotes

Record labels, which used to have complete control, are essentially irrelevant. The process of a band exposing itself to the world is extremely democratic and there are no barriers. Music is no longer a commodity, it’s an environment, or atmospheric element. Consumers have much more choice and you see people indulging in the specificity of their tastes dramatically more. They only bother with music they like.

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• This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • Fear
  • Space
  • Hurt

• Skin care is so much more important than makeup. Makeup is for when you're having fun and going out. But your skin is forever.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Important
  • Fun
  • Forever

• The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Important
  • Family
  • Daughter

• For me, if I'm just killing time, I play solitaire. I'm also guilty of playing Snood. I like games where I can shoot balls and match colors.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Time
  • Like
  • Games

• I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Work
  • Feels
  • Impression

• A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Together
  • Taken
  • Ability

• There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Magazines
  • Collecting
  • Shift

• I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!

  

  Karen O
  • Really
  • Bass
  • Ace

• I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Think
  • Always
  • Majority

• The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Church
  • Emperor
  • Above

• There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Happy
  • Energy

• A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • Alone
  • Environment

• Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Country
  • Dangerous
  • Very

• In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • Done
  • Business
  • Strong

• I was a campaign widow.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Campaign
  • Widow

• If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Together
  • Girl
  • Courage

• American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Country
  • American
  • Problems

• Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Control
  • Wish
  • Process

• People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Remember
  • Tree

• I was introduced to 7 Charming Sisters at an Emmy Award Show event. When they approached me to become a brand ambassador, I was over the moon about working with the brand. What impressed me even more as a disability advocate is the fact that the company is dedicated to employing people with disabilities.

  

  Jamie Brewer
  • People
  • Moon

• I don't want to quit smoking. I am convinced that if I quit smoking, the world would go to hell.

  

  Marjane Satrapi
  • World
  • Smoking

• You cannot do only one thing.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • You
  • Only
  • One Thing

• Under normal circumstances, if the centerpiece of a president's campaign is helping the disadvantaged and we are our brother's keeper, the idea that this same guy has an actual brother living in third-world poverty without any help from Obama, this would have been on the cover of 'The New York Times.' But none of them are touching it.

  

  Dinesh D'Souza
  • World
  • Help
  • Guy

• Record labels, which used to have complete control, are essentially irrelevant. The process of a band exposing itself to the world is extremely democratic and there are no barriers. Music is no longer a commodity, it’s an environment, or atmospheric element. Consumers have much more choice and you see people indulging in the specificity of their tastes dramatically more. They only bother with music they like.

  

  Steve Albini Big Black
  • People
  • World
  • Environment