Trent Reznor Quotes
Top 99 wise famous quotes and sayings by Trent Reznor
Trent Reznor Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Trent Reznor on Wise Famous Quotes.
I'm just trying to figure out the right balance between making fans feel good and also maintaining some dignity for myself in the process.
I doubt I'll ever pay someone to do a remix again, because there's some amazing stuff just coming out of bedrooms.
I'll be honest, watching the music industry collapse has been demoralizing and disheartening at times.
Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.
Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I currently am.
My music has been a sort of personal therapy. It's got me out of tough times, it has been the friend that I needed, when I didn't have a friend there.
And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.
I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.
Wal-Mart went on a rampage years ago insisting all music they carry be censored of all profanity and 'clean' versions be made for them to carry.
If there used to be 100 people at a major working on a record, now there are 18, but they're the good ones. There's a lean, mean hunger.
It's kind of a miracle to think that a device in your pocket can play pretty much any song that the world has ever created.
I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.
Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and it's intensified at a festival.
When fame presented itself to me, I was not at a point in my life where I was equipped to deal with it.
I like the idea of subversively communicating with people ... so that you make people see things in different ways.
The fact that someone can relate to something you, in an intimate moment, jotted down, just blew me away.
Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear.
Self-examination with a close-up mirror in an antiseptic environment is what Nine Inch Nails is based on.
Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.
ITunes kind of feels like Sam Goody to me. I don't feel cool when I go there. I'm tired of seeing John Mayer's face pop up.
I believe sometimes you have a choice in what inspiration you choose to follow and other times you really don't.
If I go onstage, I want to give people everything they want and more. I'll wash their car for them on their way out.
My input for the first 16, 17 years of my life was AM radio, FM radio - pretty mainstream stuff. Rolling Stone was probably as edgy as it got.
Why don't the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided.
I'm very much aware of the dangers of becoming a cliche. Mr. Anger, someone who gets meaner, angrier on record.
Now U2's not my favorite band, but I do respect them, and in the same way I respect Bowie: They change without fear of change.
I tend to not listen to my own music when I'm not working on it. No real reason other than it's nice to get away from it.
What is exciting is taking back the excitement of being able to debut something to an audience in exactly the way you want to.
To me, rock music was never meant to be safe. I think there needs to be an element of intrigue, mystery, subversiveness. Your parents should hate it.
I foolishly thought that if I just 'made it' then everything would be okay. And everything wasn't okay.
I think it's easy to make impenetrable music that nobody can get, and you can hide behind that sometimes.
When I was growing up, the people who liked the Beatles, I didn't like, so I didn't pay attention to them.
It's a humbling thing, having kids. One of my sons came to rehearsals, and now he says Daddy's job is 'go play loud music.'
It probably wasn't until Nine Inch Nails played the first Lollapalooza that I actually went to a festival.
I'm sure there is a group of people that assume Nine Inch Nails is just noise and chaos - or whatever it might be dismissed as, and sometimes is.
I become irritated when I am being written off as aloof or stand-offish when I'm shy and don't know what to say.
I did not grow up in a cosmopolitan environment. I grew up in a little town in the middle of nowhere, pre-Internet, pre-college radio.
I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that.
Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.