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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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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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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Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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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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Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions.
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We live within the environment. So that directly relates with our survival, our life. So through that way, more concern of well being of humanity, then naturally concerned about environment.
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He was fortunate to fight me on a bad night because if he fights me when I'm firing on all cylinders, he's getting battered as well.
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Those two throws, absolutely you couldn't throw them any better than that.
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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.
