Trent Reznor Quotes - Page 3

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• I thought Big Sur would be a great break after the tour. You'd walk down this rickety ladder to this not-very-pretty beach scene; crashing waves, moss-covered rocks, weird ocean life. It was scary. It summed up alot of things in my life, like 'I should be enjoying this, but I'm not.

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  Inspirational, Beach, Ocean

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• I thought my goal in life was to be in a successful band, and I had got that, but I was as miserable as I had ever been, and I couldn't understand why that would be.

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  Successful, Goal, Would Be

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look.

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  Book, Design, Looks

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• 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.

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  People, Magazines, Individual

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

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• I feel uncomfortable because I'm insecure about who I am.

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  Insecure, Who I Am, Uncomfortable

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• All I've undergone I will keep on.

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  "Nine Inch Nails post new music online", www.mtv.com. June 21, 1999.

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• 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.

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  Friday, Artist, Night

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

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• 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.

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• My moral standing is lying down.

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  Lying, Moral, Lying Down

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• God is dead, and no one cares! If there is a hell I'll see you there!

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  Fear, Atheism, Care

  "Song: 'Heresy'". 1994.

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• 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.

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  Integrity, Army, Years

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

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• The least responsive audience I can ever remember playing to.

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  Remember, Audience, I Can

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• Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.

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  Jumping, Desperate Situations, Advantage

  "Q & A with Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails". Interview with Neala Johnson, www.heraldsun.com.au. May 16, 2007.

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• I didnt ask to save rock, I dont even like rock that much.

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  Rocks, Asks

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• Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear.

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  Pain, Writing, Self

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• Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody.

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  Relationship, Goal, Nails

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• Nine Inch Nails was an experiment with me in discipline. I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything. Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting. I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100 percent, because I had never reached true failure.

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  Play, Piano, Discipline

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• 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.

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  Feel Good, Balance, Trying

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

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• I'll name check Radiohead on this--they've done a pretty suave marketing plan on this new record. I think generally it's been a pretty cool thing, but what they've done is used those (sales) numbers in a way that they can spin them anyway they want cause you don't know what they are.

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  Thinking, Numbers, Names

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• Grammy asshole weekend in LA. Yuck ... The Grammys = the old guard / old media propping up their puppets trying to convince the outside world, and each other, they're relevant.

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  Weekend, Media, Trying

  "Echo Chamber: Trent Reznor" by Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2010.

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• I think if there was an ISP tax of some sort, we can say to the consumer, 'All music is now available and able to be downloaded and put in your car and put in your iPod and put up your a-- if you want and it's $5 on your cable bill.'

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  Thinking, Ipods, Car

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• Why don’t the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided.

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  Clubs, Matter, Popularity

  "Trent Reznor on Relating to 'Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' Darkness; Why Grammys are 'Rigged and Cheap'". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 14, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Song, Thinking, Play

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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

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• Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and its intensified at a festival.

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  Spiritual, Crowds, Festivals

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