Steve Albini Quotes

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.

I can't stand making records.

My profession is called record production.

Immediately after the Floyd experience, I became a pop record producer.

Alex Tumay is a recording engineer who works a lot with Young Thug and a load of other rappers, like Quavo. I'm just a fan of his work.

Atlantic reckoned we should use a top Yank producer and appointed one Eddie Kramer to the post. It turns out the guy was full of bullshit and couldn't produce a healthy fart.

When I was young, people didn't even really know what a producer was.

It costs so much money to make a record!

It's weird to me when an artist comes in, and the label says, 'We want him to sound like Chris Brown,' but he says he wants to sound like Sean Paul. There's a huge disconnect - it's like we're making a product.

I chose producing because I didn't know how to play any instruments.

I've always wanted to produce a whole album for an artist.

I learned everything about business and about music and stuff from being a second engineer.

The Internet has changed how young people listen to music. Television programs like 'American Idol' changed how people listen to music. It was no longer the songwriters that we celebrated; it was the singers.

Music has been taken over in this country by personalities and dominated by rock 'n' roll. There's been a synthesizer invasion and it's not going to go away.

When you record an album in six days, you don't have time to work out a lot of stuff.

Call it whatever you want, whether it's hip-hop or cult music or pop music, but to me, it's all pretty disposable. I don't think that the music of Nikki Minaj or Justin Beiber is going to be played on the radio twenty-five years from now.

My first love is making records, and whatever's necessary in order for me to achieve that, I'll learn how to do it.

And I had such a great working experience with Paul during the 'RAM' album.

I'm not a full-fledged producer, but I can be one if I want to really spend my time on straight being a producer.

Nothing competes with the buzz of making your own record.

I just have to sell enough records to continue financing making more records.

We're always recording music, writing songs.

England's a small nation, and the pop music industry is built on fashion.

We just weren't a hip band. I mean we recorded our second album in Bath at a time when everyone else was recording in New York or Los Angeles.

You can never really know what a record's going to be.