Latest Trent Reznor Quotes from Interviews

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• Left to my own devices, in the face of the climate change deniers, the madness and the greed-based decision-making, and propaganda that's been floating around, it's hard not to become pessimistic.

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  Greed, Decision, Climate

  Source: www.spin.com

• I'm kind of forced to get out of what might feel more natural and comfortable.

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  Might, Kind, Natural

  Source: www.spin.com

• For each film, you try to create a whole world sonically, having a sense of identity through instruments used, or recording techniques.

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  Trying, Identity, Technique

  Source: www.spin.com

• Try to find the right balance of keeping things exciting and treating your audience with respect, and also treating yourself as an artist with respect.

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  Artist, Balance, Trying

  "Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails". Interview with Kyle Ryan, music.avclub.com. September 16, 2009.

• One of my biggest heroes and people I was fortunate enough to be around is David Bowie. I look at his career, and he always had the balls to break things that weren't broken, to step away from something and try something new, at risk of failing.

  Trent Reznor

  Hero, Careers, People

  "Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails". Interview with Kyle Ryan, music.avclub.com. September 16, 2009.

• My experience with being on a record label over the years has been when both of your agendas are in sync, and they're the same goal, it's great to have another army of people and resources and money. But most of the time, they're not the same. Their agenda is just simply to sell plastic discs at any cost, and yours is to preserve - at least in my case - your integrity, and hopefully sell some plastic discs, too.

  Trent Reznor

  Integrity, Army, Years

  "Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails". Interview with Kyle Ryan, music.avclub.com. September 16, 2009.

• To switch right into creativity usually takes a bit of time, and this came up right at that juncture where I thought, okay, here's an opportunity to work with somebody I really respect in a new medium.

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  Creativity, Opportunity, Juncture

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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.

  Trent Reznor

  Song, Thinking, Play

  Source: pitchfork.com

• There's something exciting and incredibly liberating for an artist to finish something Friday night and the world hears it Friday night instead of eight months later after marketing people and all those assholes get involved.

  Trent Reznor

  Friday, Artist, Night

  "Trent Reznor and David Fincher". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 27, 2010.

• I think the whole aspect of social networking is vulgar and repulsive in a lot of ways.

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  Thinking, Networking, Way

  "Trent Reznor and David Fincher". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 27, 2010.

• The result of a public that has a very high consumption rate and turnover rate is people listen to more music but spend less time with individual bits of music. It's made me more likely to put things up quickly and treat it more like a magazine instead of a novel.

  Trent Reznor

  People, Magazines, Individual

  "Trent Reznor and David Fincher". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 27, 2010.

• 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.

  Trent Reznor

  Feel Good, Balance, Trying

  "Trent Reznor and David Fincher". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 27, 2010.