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Trent Reznor
Trent Reznor
American Musician
Born: May 17, 1965
Life Me Music People Think You
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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. Trent Reznor
Thought Few Despair Bottom Reached Another Times Realise Then Floors Below
The music I always liked as a kid was stuff I could bum out to and realize, 'Hey, someone else feels that way, too.' So if someone can do that with my music, it's mission accomplished. Trent Reznor
Music Too Else Way Hey Kid Out Someone Could Stuff Feels Mission Liked Always Accomplished Bum Realize
Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear. Trent Reznor
Writing Fear Pain Frankly Dreaded Unpleasant Seemed Involved Self-Examination Always Lot
It's one thing to sit back and say, 'Hey let's play a club, that will be great,' but then you get there and say, 'Hey wait, this is the dressing room? Where's my dressing room?' Trent Reznor
Great You Wait Will Sit Club Back Hey Say One Thing Dressing Dressing Room Get Room Then Play Thing
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. Trent Reznor
You Fight Song Sometimes Stage Else Worst Worst Thing About Something Something Else Daydreaming Because Oh Happen Thing Playing
I don't have to save rock. I don't even like rock that much. Trent Reznor
Like Rock Much Even Save
Making noise is easy; making stuff people understand is an easy thing to do. Trent Reznor
Noise People Easy Easy Thing Stuff Understand Making Thing
MTV can't do less for me, let's put it that way. I'm fine without them. Trent Reznor
Me Way Fine Put Without Them Less
Why don't the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided. Trent Reznor
Matter Club Cheap Feels Like Because Contest Decided Grammys Popularity Popularity Contest Why Rigged
'Yeezus,' I really love it. I think the sound of it is cool. Trent Reznor
Love Think Sound Really Cool
I'm not Prince or Rivers Cuomo, who brags about having hundreds of great songs. Trent Reznor
Great Hundreds About Having Rivers Songs Great Songs Prince Brag Who
I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work. Trent Reznor
Work Man Old Clown Kids Entertain Gene Never Puts Like Makeup Going Want Old Man Who
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. Trent Reznor
You Yourself People Seen Mine Way Kind Find See Online Like How Version Friends Interesting Themselves Watch Portray
I do remember my first purchase: the Partridge Family's 'Greatest Hits.' I got it for $3.99 at a failed chain of pre-Wal-Mart-type stores called Jamesway. God, I'm old. Trent Reznor
God Family Remember Old First Purchase Failed Greatest Got Greatest Hits Hits Stores Chain
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. Trent Reznor
Change Respect Fear Band Way Favorite Bowie Without Same Them Now
Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman. Trent Reznor
Become Astronaut Fireman Policeman Rock Option Roll Being Legitimate Star Career
The band Grizzly Bear, I think they're excellent. There's a beauty and a musicality there that I wish would have been in vogue in the late '80s, when I was forming bands. Trent Reznor
Wish Beauty Band Think Late Musicality Would Vogue Bear Excellent Been Bands Forming
If there used to be 100 people at a major working on a record, now there are 18, but they're the good ones. There's a lean, mean hunger. Trent Reznor
Good People Hunger Good Ones Record Major Lean Mean Working Used Now
Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I currently am. Trent Reznor
Music Time Myself First Sit Down Thinking About Write Part Always Am Any Currently Who
I like the idea of subversively communicating with people... so that you make people see things in different ways. Trent Reznor
You People Ways See Idea Like Make Different Communicating Different Ways Things
I think the reason I was 23 before I ever wrote a song was that I was afraid of testing myself. What would I do if I discovered I didn't have anything to say? Trent Reznor
Myself Song Before Think Say Would Wrote Testing Discovered Afraid Anything Reason Ever
I lived a fairly average, anonymous small-town life till I got the idea to do Nine Inch Nails. Then I locked myself in a studio for a year, and then got off the tour bus two years after that, and I didn't know who I'd turned into. Trent Reznor
Life Myself Year Nine Nine Inch Nails Locked Tour Tour Bus Studio Idea Nails Know Anonymous Fairly Got Till Years Off After Bus Average Turned Then Inch Who Lived Two
The idea of politics is just so uninteresting to me - I've never paid much attention to it. I don't believe things can really change. It doesn't matter who's president. Nothing really gets resolved. I don't know. I guess that's not the right attitude to take. Trent Reznor
Politics Attitude Me Change Matter Nothing Believe Resolved President Guess Take Never Attention Idea Know Gets Just Much Much Attention Really Paid Uninteresting Right Things
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
Me Matter Resonate Stage Back Catalog Songs Part Still Anymore Chosen Play Things
After coming from a major label, I realized the entire business has been decimated, and you can't look to labels to try to figure it out because they don't even use the technology, and they're oblivious to how people consume music these days. Trent Reznor
Music You Technology Business People Try Out Has-Been Entire Oblivious Consume Major Days Major Label Look Because How Coming Been Label Labels After Realized Use Figure Even
I'm a lot less precious than I used to be about putting things out, for better or for worse. 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. Trent Reznor
Music Time People Better Result Spend Worse Bits Out High About Rate More Individual Consumption Putting Lot Very Than Precious Listen Public Turnover Used Less Less Time Things
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