Trent Reznor Quotes - Page 2

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• Lots of people can have girlfriends. But I can throw around guitars onstage! That'll be my epitaph: 'He never had a girlfriend, but you should've seen him smash a Les Paul!'

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  Girlfriend, Guitar, People

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• I write most of my songs when I'm in a bad mood.

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  Song, Writing, Bad Mood

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The dynamic of a relationship changes when one person gets sober.

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  Sober, Persons

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• I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.

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  Trying, I Realized, Schoolwork

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• There's nothing like a stressful day.

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  Stressful, Stressful Day

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• 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

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• 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.

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  Hate, Thinking, Rocks

  "This Is the Sound: The Best of Alternative Rock". Book by Randi Reisfeld, 2008.

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• I was up above it
  Now I'm down in it.

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  Reality

  "Song: 'Down In It'". 1989.

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• Tired faith all worn and thin, for all we could have done, and all that could have been.

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  Life, Tired, Done

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• The Grammys make me hate music, and certainly everyone in the ass-licking music industry.

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  Hate, Licking, Ass

  "Trent Reznor Slams Grammys With A 'Heartfelt F**k You' After Performance Cut-Off". www.contactmusic.com. January 27, 2014.

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• I do actually believe in love. I can't say that I'm 100 percent successful in that department, but I think it's one of the few worthwhile human experiences. It's cooler than anything I can think of right now.

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  Believe, Successful, Thinking

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• I'll be there for you, as long as it works for me. I play a game, its called insincerity.

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  Games, Play, Long

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• When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie.

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  Careers, People, Mentor

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• I didn't want to be in a Pepsi commercial with R2-D2 sitting on my shoulder.

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  Pepsi, Sitting, Want

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• I want to do something that matters.

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  Want, Matter

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• When I was around Bowie, I was nearing the bottom. When we were touring together, I looked at him as a kind of big-brother figure and I also looked at him as somebody I had a lot of respect for. The age and the period he's at in his life, I'd like to be there some day. He has a kind of content peace about him that's something to shoot for.

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  Brother, Age, Together

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• 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.

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  Hero, Careers, People

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

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• In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and whats behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand.

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  Dark, Doors, What If

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• 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.

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• When an instrument fails on stage it mocks you and must be destroyed!

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  Failing, Stage, Instruments

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• I have been wildly enthused about gaming since I was younger, and a career path I chose not to go down but did really consider was getting into programming and game design.

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  Games, Careers, Design

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• I wear this crown of thorns
  Upon my liar's chair
  Full of broken thoughts
  I cannot repair
  Beneath the stains of time
  The feelings disappear
  You are someone else
  I am still right here
  What have I become
  My sweetest friend?

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  Liars, Sadness, Broken

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• I remember everything
  What have I become?
  My sweetest friend?
  Everyone I know goes away in the end
  You could have it all
  My empire of dirt
  I will let you down
  I will make you hurt.

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  Hurt, Pain, Remembers Everything

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• I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything.

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  I Realized, Schoolwork

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• His perfect kingdom of killing, suffering and pain Demands devotion, atrocities done in his name.

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  Pain, Names, Perfect

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