Steve Albini Quotes

Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.

I don't really hear the Beatles when I listen to my own music.

I don't have to save rock. I don't even like rock that much.

I love jazz and pop rock and country. I grew up listening to Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Anne Murray - if I hear something really great... I want to be a part of it.

I equally love both, classic rock and hip-hop. I love all music, really, and I really use classic rock a lot. I'm heavily influenced by that melodically in my music. I can't really separate the two.

Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.

I love... different kinds of music. I like classical music and pop music. I like alternative, and I like rap, hip-hop, and I kind of collected all these things that I love, and they infused my sensibilities, and I just wanted to sing because it felt like it needed to come out of me.

Every day I feel different about music, but what never changes is my love for it.

My father was not really into popular music; I had to learn about that for myself.

It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.

I grew up listening to everything. And rock and roll has always been a big, big part of it - as big a part of what I do as any other type of music.

Music was what bothered me, what interested me.

My voice is a combination of how I grew up and what I was listening to growing up. I like a lot of different kinds of music and am always being inspired in different ways by different artists for different reasons.

Irving Berlin was the greatest songwriter of all time. I was in awe of him. But his music wasn't my music. My music was the blues.

The very first show I ever saw was The Judds, and that influenced me to not play country music.

I wanted 'Second Sky' to be my way of recommending truly good music to my audience that I think is worthy of their time.

We used to sit around and listen to the radio and not hear anything like the stuff we like, so we decided to play it ourselves.

With so many genres, music is so diverse, which is why it is an exciting thing to do in life.

I go through phases where I'm not into jazz as much, and then I'll get heavy, heavy, heavy into it.

Hip-hop influences my talent, but I think that punk and everything else I listened to growing up was who my idols were.

For one person, Haydn is most exciting. Or Bach is the most exciting. For another, it's Carter or Strauss. For me - and for any musician - all of the music is exciting. And if you don't approach it with excitement, we can't be musicians.

When I write music, I know a lot of artists like Taylor Swift or Ed Sheeran tend to write from personal experience. I write from personal experience, of course, but I don't limit myself to that.

I've always had a close connection to both rock and classical music.

When children start to speak they find their own voice by imitating the sounds around them. It would follow that bands do the same. Bands will find their own voice at some point.

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.