Trent Reznor Quotes
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I'll name check Radiohead on this--they've done a pretty suave marketing plan on this new record. I think generally it's been a pretty cool thing, but what they've done is used those (sales) numbers in a way that they can spin them anyway they want cause you don't know what they are.
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This isn't meant to last. This is for right now.
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I thought my goal in life was to be in a successful band, and I had got that, but I was as miserable as I had ever been, and I couldn't understand why that would be.
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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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I'll be there for you, as long as it works for me. I play a game, its called insincerity.
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The Grammys make me hate music, and certainly everyone in the ass-licking music industry.
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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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My experience with being on a record label over the years has been when both of your agendas are in sync, and they're the same goal, it's great to have another army of people and resources and money. But most of the time, they're not the same. Their agenda is just simply to sell plastic discs at any cost, and yours is to preserve - at least in my case - your integrity, and hopefully sell some plastic discs, too.
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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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One step closer to the end of the world. The one-two combo of corporate greed and organised religion apparently proved to be too much for reason, sanity and compassion.
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When I was around Bowie, I was nearing the bottom. When we were touring together, I looked at him as a kind of big-brother figure and I also looked at him as somebody I had a lot of respect for. The age and the period he's at in his life, I'd like to be there some day. He has a kind of content peace about him that's something to shoot for.
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For each film, you try to create a whole world sonically, having a sense of identity through instruments used, or recording techniques.
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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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I was at my most miserable when I had everything I ever wanted.
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All I've undergone I will keep on.
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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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I'm just trying to figure out the right balance between making fans feel good and also maintaining some dignity for myself in the process.
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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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People are always saying, 'You're really nice, I thought you were going to be a complete asshole.' I'm getting pretty fed up with it. I just want to say to them, 'Well I could always piss on your head.'
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I didnt ask to save rock, I dont even like rock that much.
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I'm kind of forced to get out of what might feel more natural and comfortable.
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Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and its intensified at a festival.
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Why don’t the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided.
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There's nothing like a stressful day.
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Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear.
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If you have something to say, then say it. Express yourself and break the rules.
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Sometimes I think I spend my whole life trying to figure out where I fit in.
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I was up above it Now I'm down in it.
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I really try to put myself in uncomfortable situations. Complacency is my enemy.
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The dynamic of a relationship changes when one person gets sober.
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