Quotes by Trent Reznor

About Trent Reznor:

Michael Trent Reznor is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and film score composer. As a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, he has led the industrial rock project Nine Inch Nails since 1988. His first release as Nine Inch Nails, the 1989 album Pretty Hate Machine, was a commercial and critical success. He has since released eight studio albums. He left Interscope Records in 2007 and was an independent recording artist until signing with Columbia Records in 2012.
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Musicians have always adopted Macs.

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I don't have to save rock. I don't even like rock that much.

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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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MTV can't do less for me, let's put it that way. I'm fine without them.

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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 like the idea of subversively communicating with people... so that you make people see things in different ways.

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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...

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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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When I was growing up, the people who liked the Beatles, I didn't like, so I didn't pay attention to them.

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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 aspire to make a record that sounds better 10 listens in than it does after two, and still, at 50 listens, you're picking out things that add a depth and a thoughtfulness to it; there's enough in there that you can still be extracting pieces out of...

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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 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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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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I watch people, friends of mine, and see how they portray themselves online and I find interesting that it's kind of a hyper-real version of yourself, how you'd like to be seen, in a way.

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When I'm on stage, the songs that we've chosen to play from the back catalog are things that still resonate with me, and matter to me. And the songs that I couldn't be a part of, we don't play anymore.

Trent Reznor

Nine Inch Nails was born out of Cleveland, Ohio, with me and a friend in a studio working on demos at night. Got a record deal with a small, little label, went on tour in a van, and a couple years later found that somehow we touched a nerve, and that...

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The first set of lyrics for the first songs I ever wrote, which are the ones on 'Pretty Hate Machine,' came from private journal entries that I realized I was writing in lyric form.

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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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Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting.

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Making noise is easy; making stuff people understand is an easy thing to do.

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Author Bio

  • NameTrent Reznor
  • DescriptionAmerican musician
  • BornMay 17, 1965
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger; Composer; Pianist; Musician; Singer-songwriter; Guitarist
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Original Score