Steve Albini Quotes
I have no problem with bands using participant financing schemes like Kickstarter and such. I've said many times that I think they're part of the new way bands and their audience interact and they can be a fantastic resource, enabling bands to do things essentially in cooperation with their audience. It's pretty amazing, actually.
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I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.
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When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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This is America, not a banana republic.
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If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
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I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions.
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I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.
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There is nothing stronger than the American labor movement. United, we cannot and we will not be turned aside. We'll work for it, sisters and brothers. We'll stand for it. Together. Each of us. To bring out the best in America. To bring out the best in ourselves, and each other.
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What we are here to do is to meet and become the person we are.
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Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.
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I had a breakthrough, I think my life just became calmer, I gave up drinking. My priorities changed as I had a young daughter. The group didn't want me to record for the Think Tank album... so I took it as a sign to leave.
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For radical white writers wishing to forge interracial movements of poor and working people, whiteness has also long been a problem, with Alexander Saxton and Ted Allen making especially full efforts to understand whiteness in order to disillusion whites unable to see past the value of their own skins.
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I have no problem with bands using participant financing schemes like Kickstarter and such. I've said many times that I think they're part of the new way bands and their audience interact and they can be a fantastic resource, enabling bands to do things essentially in cooperation with their audience. It's pretty amazing, actually.
