Trent Reznor Quotes
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My life has two modes. One is sitting around writing and contemplating or building things. The other is execution mode. It takes a while to switch from one to the other.
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Spotify - I met those guys before they launched in America and was wildly excited about the idea. 'Wow, this is all the music in the world, for a flat fee.'
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I've always been into computers. When I was getting out of high school and forming my identity musically, all of it was really coming into the fold, computers and drum machines. It felt like, you know, I'm in the right place at the right time. I liked the collision.
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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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Sometimes the worst thing that can happen is, 'Oh, I'm on stage playing a song,' because you're daydreaming about something else, you're on autopilot. You have to fight that.
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I had to come to terms about becoming an addict, which, for a long time, I lied to myself about the status of until I couldn't lie any more, 'cause I was either going to die or get better.
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I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything.
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Sometimes we pee on each other before we go on stage.
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I doubt I'll ever pay someone to do a remix again, because there's some amazing stuff just coming out of bedrooms.
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Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting.
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Apparently, the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me.
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I was at my most miserable when I had everything I ever wanted.
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I think early on in my career, I was heavily inspired by bands like Throbbing Gristle and Test Dept, and films of David Lynch, for example, where the soundscape plays a very important role in the listening experience.
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In my nothing, you were everything, to me.
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When I was growing up, rock & roll helped give me my sense of identity, but I had to search for it.
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I feel uncomfortable because I'm insecure about who I am.
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I was up above it. Now, I'm down in 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.
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Now U2's not my favorite band, but I do respect them, and in the same way I respect Bowie: They change without fear of change.
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It's a humbling thing, having kids. One of my sons came to rehearsals, and now he says Daddy's job is 'go play loud music.'
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I used to buy vinyl. Today, if you do put out a record on a label, traditionally, most people are going to hear it via a leak that happens two weeks - if not two months - before it comes out. There's no real way around that.
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My moral standing is lying down.
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Self-examination with a close-up mirror in an antiseptic environment is what Nine Inch Nails is based on.
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The Grammys make me hate music, and certainly everyone in the ass-licking music industry.