Trent Reznor Quotes (39 quotes)

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„My music, I hope, takes 100% of your concentration. I know how to do that.“
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„This isn't meant to last. This is for right now.“
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„I'd rather not get into what I'm talking about lyrically. I think it's impossible not to demystify a song when saying what it's about. Music and art can be damaged severely by too much information; I say that as somebody that has participated in that.“
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„MTV can't do less for me, let's put it that way. I'm fine without them.“
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„If I go onstage, I want to give people everything they want and more. I'll wash their car for them on their way out.“
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„I'm sure there is a group of people that assume Nine Inch Nails is just noise and chaos - or whatever it might be dismissed as, and sometimes is.“
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„I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.“
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„I love David Fincher and I think he's a genius.“
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„I think there's something strangely musical about noise.“
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„I'm not Prince or Rivers Cuomo, who brags about having hundreds of great songs.“
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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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„I need boundaries. In the modern studio there are a bunch of instruments around me, and I can simulate anything I can't play, so sometimes the palette feels too big.“
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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 found that when I was putting my own music out, with my Twitter feed as the pure marketing budget, I'm preaching to the choir.“
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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 was never a Lime Wire guy because it's too much hassle to find the song.“
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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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„What I have appreciated about the 'Call of Duty' games is the scale of production. It's not an indie game. It's not trying to be an indie game. But I've genuinely been pretty consistently blown away by, wow, what an effort has gone into this.“
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„Nine Inch Nails is like building an army to go conquer. We build it, then we play, and we have to play so much to validate building it, financially. It leads to getting burn-out because a tour that would be fun if it lasted three weeks has to last 15 weeks.“
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„Fear has governed my life, if I think about it.“
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Trent Reznor
Author born: May 17, 1965
Nationality: American
Author Profession: Musician

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