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.

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• Steve Albini:

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

• Steve Albini:

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

• Steve Albini:

  Buy groceries and feed yourself, even on the road.

• Steve Albini:

  A more important reason is that the bands will intuitively trust someone they think is a peer, and

• Steve Albini:

  As a recording engineer - someone who is deeply embroiled in the process of making records every da

• Steve Albini:

  You see something happen to a population whereby everyone adopts something that's just preposterous

• Steve Albini:

  In the late '80s and early '90s, there was a slightly retro drum sound that was popular in hip-hop

• Steve Albini:

  Cranking the Auto-Tune is so easy to do that there's almost no systemic resistance to trying it. So

• Steve Albini:

  I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream m

• Steve Albini:

  I feel like bands should be growing, living, functioning entities and to crystallize a band into a