Trent Reznor Quotes
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You know, if nobody knows who you are, nobody's going to buy your record.
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When I sit down to make a set list I usually think, 'We'll build it up here, take it down here, go into a quiet section here, explode here,' in a way that there's a flow and it doesn't feel like shuffle on an iPod.
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My input for the first 16, 17 years of my life was AM radio, FM radio - pretty mainstream stuff. Rolling Stone was probably as edgy as it got.
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When David Fincher called me up a few years ago and said, 'Hey, I'd like you to score this film 'The Social Network,' I said, 'I'm flattered, but I really don't have any real experience scoring films, and I'd rather not screw it up on a high-profile project. And I like you and I don't want to compromise our friendship.'
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People want to listen to a lot of music and do whatever they want with it. They don't want DRM, they don't want subscriptions. They don't want a player that only can do this but can't do that and you only have one copy. They don't want that. You know? I don't want that.
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This isn't meant to last. This is for right now.
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When I first played 'Wolfenstein 3D,' it blew my mind. It had a big impact on me.
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I write most of my songs when I'm in a bad mood.
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I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that.
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Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.
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When Twitter made its way to my radar I looked at it as a curiosity, then started experimenting. I approached that as a place to be less formal and more off-the-cuff, honest and 'human.'
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What is exciting is taking back the excitement of being able to debut something to an audience in exactly the way you want to.
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Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and it's intensified at a festival.
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I often find myself listening to a record because a lot of people or magazines have told me it's good and I'm supposed to like it, and I try to stay in touch with what's happening and I'm also a fan of music. I find myself trying to like something that I really don't think is that great.
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I think the whole aspect of social networking is vulgar and repulsive in a lot of ways. But I also see why it's appealing - I've had that little high you get from posting stuff online. But then you think, 'Did I need to say that?' I've explored that enough to know to stay kind of quiet these days.
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It's not like I ride a broom into interviews. I don't hang upside down with a cape on.
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Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.
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Bow down before the one you serve, you're going to get what you deserve.
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Musicians have always adopted Macs.
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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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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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I can still make a living with touring. And maybe you buy a t-shirt. And I would rather 10 million people get my record and listen to it for free than 500,000 that I coerced to pay $15 for it, you know?
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I think it's just an awkward time right now to be a musician.
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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.