Trent Reznor Quotes
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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You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'
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There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.
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With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.
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It took a long while for me to even put out a record because there were so many options of how to do a song, and in some respects, I'm never totally happy with the outcome.
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From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.
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Wayne and Drake, it takes them so long to do a song. I understand why, because they want it to be perfect. But I think I can do a perfect song in 10 minutes.
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Sometimes videos make a bad song very tight.
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That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.
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I did a song in eight minutes. I thought everybody could write songs that fast. But working with a lot of them, they don't.
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I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
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Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.
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Honestly, are we ever going to get over 'California Girls' by Katy Perry? I know it's old, but that song - I love that song!
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If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.
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I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.
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I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.
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It's very much a piece of myself when I write a song. I don't mean to say it's very personal, like the lyrics mean something personal to me. When I write a song, that's my taste in music – my taste in chord progressions and melodies.
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Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
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Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.
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The format of the nightly newscasts is still very much 1981 — 'Tremble, onlookers! I am the anchorman and now here is a miracle: a report by satellite from many thousands of miles away. I will return to introduce another one in due course.'
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I have been very independent from day I arrived in Washington.
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But I still always felt the absence of a mother.
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We're going to win Sunday. I guarantee it.
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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.
