Trent Reznor Quotes

I've got a canvas, I've got a scene, let’s fill that with sound.

Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails

• Sound
• Scene
• Canvas

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• 'Badlands' is a very tangible record; a lot of the sounds were actual things: they were pots and pans, and they were rocks, and they were voices,and instruments used in a way to create a landscape of sound.

  

  Halsey
  • Sound
  • Rocks
  • Landscape

• I'm not into the whole showbiz scene.

  

  Samantha Mumba
  • Scene
  • Whole
  • Showbiz

• I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • People
  • Sound
  • Security

• I hate the way chorus boxes sound.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Way
  • Hate
  • Sound

• Even though I know who I am, musically I'm a blank canvas. I know what colors I want to use, but I don't know what picture I want to paint yet.

  

  Becky G
  • Picture
  • Colors
  • Musically

• I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Me
  • Like
  • Sound

• My sound is, at its core, a mix of things. Definitely an imperfect mix, but one that incorporates elements of the music I love - a bit of indie rock, super rhythmic rapping, and lots of synths.

  

  K. Flay
  • Music
  • Sound
  • Elements

• I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Economic
  • Policy
  • Republicans

• There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Things
  • Sound
  • Melody

• The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

  

  Nas
  • Soul
  • Feeling
  • Me

• But it's like the horror of being in a studio with a blank canvas. I used to always run out of ideas because there are so many possibilities and I would just think, well what am I going to do now!

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Think
  • Ideas
  • Canvas

• I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Life
  • Painting
  • Magic

• Music is what our feelings sound like.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Music
  • Feelings
  • Sound

• Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Work
  • Canvas
  • Add

• I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.

  

  M. Ward
  • Love
  • Like
  • Sound

• Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Music
  • Way
  • Sound

• That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was.

  

  Carl Perkins
  • Simple
  • Thought
  • Sound

• I try to find 15 minutes a day to just be alone without any distractions just for headspace to meditate and get my Zen on. I think that helps me get through the hecticness of the day on tour with the interviews, the sound check, the meet and greets, the show and the post-show meet and greets.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Think
  • Sound
  • Interviews

• Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Today
  • Black
  • Silence

• Mother, when your children are irritable, do not make them more so by scolding and fault-finding, but correct their irritability by good nature and mirthfulness. Irritability comes from errors in food, bad air, too little sleep, a necessity for change of scene and surroundings; from confinement in close rooms, and lack of sunshine.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Sleep

• The foundation upon which our nation stands is much richer and firmer than the sympathies that may occasionally divide us. And we never know this more truly than in Christmas time. In good times or in bad, under clear skies or under the shadow of uncertainty, the Christmas message is the imperishable one of joy, hope and brotherhood.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Time
  • Good
  • May

• I tend to jot down music.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • Music
  • Tend

• You want your fans to like what you do, because it's coming from your heart and soul. You write it, you produce this thing. It's like your baby.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Soul

• I've got a canvas, I've got a scene, let’s fill that with sound.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Sound
  • Scene
  • Canvas