Steve Albini Quotes
I want to be in cahoots with bands who want to make the record of their dreams.
Quotes to Explore
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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I can paint in jail.
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In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.
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Chuck Cooper is a friend, and I adore him. He can do so many things.
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Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.
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It has always been a dream of mine to put a play on film.
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Our founders said that everybody mattered, everybody counted. But we all know that they didn't count everybody at the beginning. They did somehow have confidence that each generation of Americans would do a better job with it and would bring more and more people in from the margins and into the heart and soul of our democracy.
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I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other.
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I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics.
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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.
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I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
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There's 40 or 50 songs that nobody's heard that I've done in between albums. There's a whole evolution from Midnite Vultures to Sea Change that's never been released.
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I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.
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My song 'Play It Again' is a perfect example of my music because the verses go so hard, and they're so urban; and then this pop hook comes out of nowhere and socks you in the face and makes you want to dance.
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You can wear a beautiful black dress that you've maybe had for years, but if you wear a fun shoe, you can completely change it. Wear something different, something sexy, something strappy, or something with pom poms.
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Not that I want everything right now; but I do want everything.
Nastassja Kinski -
My mother would take the Band-Aid off, clean the wound, and say, "Things that are covered don't heal well." Mother was right. Things that are covered do not heal well.
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I want to be in cahoots with bands who want to make the record of their dreams.
