Trent Reznor Quotes
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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 like the idea of working in an album-sized chunk, you know, and I never looked at Nine Inch Nails as a project that would be a hit-driven, single-based kind of thing.
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My moral standing is lying down.
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I think it's easy to make impenetrable music that nobody can get, and you can hide behind that sometimes.
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I was up above it. Now, I'm down in it.
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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 don't have to save rock. I don't even like rock that much.
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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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You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.
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The Grammys make me hate music, and certainly everyone in the ass-licking music industry.
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His perfect kingdom of killing, suffering and pain Demands devotion, atrocities done in his name.
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I didn't want to be in a Pepsi commercial with R2-D2 sitting on my shoulder.
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I was at my most miserable when I had everything I ever wanted.
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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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I hated school . . . I freaking hated it. The fact is that it revolved around something you didn't have access to. If you weren't on the football team, if you were in the band, you were a leper. When people say those were the best years of our lives, I want to scream.
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Today's political climate does not allow the luxury of apathy.
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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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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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I want to do something that matters.
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It probably wasn't until Nine Inch Nails played the first Lollapalooza that I actually went to a festival.
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I'll be there for you, as long as it works for me. I play a game, its called insincerity.
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My music has been a sort of personal therapy. It's got me out of tough times, it has been the friend that I needed, when I didn't have a friend there.
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I remember everything What have I become? My sweetest friend? Everyone I know goes away in the end You could have it all My empire of dirt I will let you down I will make you hurt.
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I miss how a record label can help spread the word that you have something out.