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Steve Albini

"It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this."

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"It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this."

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Donna Grant

"I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude."

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Donna Grant

"Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back."

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Donna Grant

"For us chess players the language of artist is something natural."

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Donna Grant

"A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one."

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Donna Grant

"It's nice to get a response from the artists that I cover."

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Donna Grant

"That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen."

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Donna Grant

"When I accept a role, I feel that as an artist I have to submit completely to the tutelage of my director. And while I expect to be heard and encouraged and honored, at the end of the day, man, it's the way the director wants it."

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Donna Grant

"I didn't want to be an artist."

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Donna Grant

"Artists are very young, and say, Um, ok, to these industry dudes."

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Donna Grant

"Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist."

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Steve Albini
"The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which never happens."

Agreement

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Steve Albini
"I moved to Chicago in 1980 to go to college."

Chicago

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Steve Albini
"The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians, she had never eaten properly prepared meat, only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh."

Dating

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Steve Albini
"In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record."

Chicago

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Steve Albini
"Buy groceries and feed yourself, even on the road."

Road

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Steve Albini
"Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment."

Wisdom

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Steve Albini
"Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food."

Food

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Steve Albini
"By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum."

Music

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Steve Albini
"I'm busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesn't appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else."

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Steve Albini
"Find people who think like you and stick with them. Make only music you are passionate about. Work only with people you like and trust. Don't sign anything."

Music

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