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Harmonics are vibrations a fraction of the length of the vibrating string, which add higher-pitched and more complex content to the notes. With a dull instrument, the harmonics die out, but with a sustaining instrument, the harmonics continue to sound along with the fundamental note.

Steve Albini

Sound, Add, Fundamentals

"Talking to Shellac About Music, Food, and Poker". Interview with Sasha Frere-Jones, www.newyorker.com. October 07, 2011.

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I want to be in cahoots with bands who want to make the record of their dreams.

Steve Albini

Dream, Band, Records

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If the label presents them with a contract that the band don't want to sign, all the label has to do is wait. There are a hundred other bands willing to sign the exact same contract, so the label is in a position of strength

Steve Albini

Waiting, Labels, Band

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

Steve Albini

Agreement, Labels, Band

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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When people are absurdly tall, they command everyone's attention when they walk into a room. Nobody's ever dismissive of somebody for being too tall.

Steve Albini

People, Attention, Rooms

Interview with Amelie Gillette, www.avclub.com. June 14, 2000.

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If I were a gambling man I would put all my money on there not being anything other than this universe.

Steve Albini

Men, Gambling, Ifs

Interview with Ryan Kohls, whatiwannaknowdotcom.wordpress.com. June 3, 2011.

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I have no problem with bands using participant financing schemes like Kickstarter and such. I've said many times that I think they're part of the new way bands and their audience interact and they can be a fantastic resource, enabling bands to do things essentially in cooperation with their audience. It's pretty amazing, actually.

Steve Albini

Thinking, Band, Enabling

"Amanda "$1.2m" palmer wants you to play with her for free". Comment to a post, www.electricalaudio.com. September 13, 2012.

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Clip your year-end column and put it away for 10 years. See if you don’t feel like an idiot when you reread it.

Steve Albini

Years, Year End, Idiot

"Volume 14 (November 2003)" by Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 17, 2010.

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"In terms of other people's perception of me, that's their business. There are people who I have never met but, for whatever reason, I am certain that these people are jack-offs. I've never met Billy Joel, but I'm absolutely convinced he's an asshole. I can't justify that opinion, that's just what I think. But my opinion about Billy Joel isn't going to affect him in the slightest. In the same way, I am sure there are people out there who are completely convinced that I am an asshole, for whatever reason. They might even feel more justified than I feel about my presumptive opinion of Billy Joel."

- Steve Albini,

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