Anyone who's an executive at a record label does not understand what the Internet is, how it works, how people use it, how fans and consumers interact - no idea. I'm surprised they know how to use e-mail. Trent Reznor More Quotes by Trent Reznor More Quotes From Trent Reznor I remember everything Trent Reznor remembers-everything pain hurt I'm kind of forced to get out of what might feel more natural and comfortable. Trent Reznor kind natural might 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. Trent Reznor magazines individual people To me, rock music was never meant to be safe. I think there needs to be an element of intrigue, mystery, subversiveness. Your parents should hate it. Trent Reznor rocks hate thinking 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.' Trent Reznor ipods car thinking Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look. Trent Reznor design book looks Why don’t the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided. Trent Reznor popularity clubs matter I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure. Trent Reznor schoolwork i-realized trying 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. Trent Reznor play song thinking I thought Big Sur would be a great break after the tour. You'd walk down this rickety ladder to this not-very-pretty beach scene; crashing waves, moss-covered rocks, weird ocean life. It was scary. It summed up alot of things in my life, like 'I should be enjoying this, but I'm not. Trent Reznor ocean inspirational beach Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear. Trent Reznor pain self writing In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and whats behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand. Trent Reznor what-if dark doors 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 makeup men kids I didnt ask to save rock, I dont even like rock that much. Trent Reznor asks rocks Bowie mattered to me. He reinvented himself so many times - it must have been a daring statement to do that, risking failure. And hanging out with him and seeing him like that - he's my dad's age, born in the same month - when you find someone who's been through a really dark period, which most of his music I care about is from, Low, Lodger, "Heroes" era.... But he came out of it and made something that mattered. Trent Reznor dad hero dark I didn't want to be in a Pepsi commercial with R2-D2 sitting on my shoulder. Trent Reznor pepsi sitting want One of my biggest heroes and people I was fortunate enough to be around is David Bowie. I look at his career, and he always had the balls to break things that weren't broken, to step away from something and try something new, at risk of failing. Trent Reznor careers hero people Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes. Trent Reznor extremes misery balance I was up above it Trent Reznor reality My moral standing is lying down. Trent Reznor lying-down moral lying
