Trent Reznor Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

Trent Reznor quotes and sayings page 8 (59 year old musician). Here's quote # 71 through 80 out of the 144 we have for him.

“A lot of what I've done as Nine Inch Nails has been governed by fear. I was trying to keep the songs in a framework that was tough, and I learnt a lot from Jesus and Mary Chain about how to bury nice pop songs in unlistenable noise - the idea being if you can get behind that wall, you find there's a pearl inside.”

“I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.”

“I foolishly thought that if I just 'made it' then everything would be okay. And everything wasn't okay.”

“Apparently, the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me.”

“Sometimes we pee on each other before we go on stage.”

“I think it's easy to make impenetrable music that nobody can get, and you can hide behind that sometimes.”

“Musicians have always adopted Macs.”

“I did not grow up in a cosmopolitan environment. I grew up in a little town in the middle of nowhere, pre-Internet, pre-college radio.”

“My life has two modes. One is sitting around writing and contemplating or building things. The other is execution mode. It takes a while to switch from one to the other.”