87+ Trent Reznor Quotes On Relationships, Music And Environment

Trent Reznor is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and film score composer. He is best known as the founder and primary creative force behind the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. Reznor has also been associated with the bands Option 30, Exotic Birds, and Tapeworm, among others. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Trent Reznor on life, relationships, music.

Top 10 Trent Reznor Quotes

1. And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.
2. If you have something to say, then say it. Express yourself and break the rules.
3. Today's political climate does not allow the luxury of apathy.
4. My doctor says, 'You've got one of the hardest ones to treat because it's not bipolar, it's not up and down, you're always just about a quart low in the mood department.
5. If I come up with rules or limitations it focuses me in a direction. And those rules can change if you realize it's a dumb idea. You start to mutate it to see what fits best.
6. I believe there's a God but I'm not too sure of his relevance.
7. I really try to put myself in uncomfortable situations. Complacency is my enemy.
8. Tired faith all worn and thin, for all we could have done, and all that could have been.
9. 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.
10. If I could start again, a million miles away, I would keep myself, I would find a way.

Trent Reznor Short Quotes

• His perfect kingdom of killing, suffering and pain Demands devotion, atrocities done in his name.
• I feel uncomfortable because I'm insecure about who I am.
• I write most of my songs when I'm in a bad mood.
• My moral standing is lying down.
• God is dead, and no one cares! If there is a hell I'll see you there!
• There's nothing like a stressful day.
• I've become impossible, holding on to when everything seemed to matter more.
• I didn't want to be in a Pepsi commercial with R2-D2 sitting on my shoulder.
• I'll be there for you, as long as it works for me. I play a game, its called insincerity.
• I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything.

Trent Reznor Quotes About Life

Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody. — Trent Reznor

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

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

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. — Trent Reznor

Sometimes I think I spend my whole life trying to figure out where I fit in. — Trent Reznor

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

Trent Reznor Quotes About Music

I think, fundamentally, music is something inherently people love and need and relate to, and a lot of what's out right now feels like McDonalds. It's quick-fix. You kind of have a stomachache afterwards. — Trent Reznor

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

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

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. — Trent Reznor

I think there's something strangely musical about noise. — Trent Reznor

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

The Grammys make me hate music, and certainly everyone in the ass-licking music industry. — Trent Reznor

My music has been a sort of personal therapy. It's got me out of tough times, it has been the friend that I needed, when I didn't have a friend there. — Trent Reznor

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

Trent Reznor Famous Quotes And Sayings

I wear this crown of thorns Upon my liar's chair Full of broken thoughts I cannot repair Beneath the stains of time The feelings disappear You are someone else I am still right here What have I become My sweetest friend? — Trent Reznor

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.' — Trent Reznor

I do actually believe in love. I can't say that I'm 100 percent successful in that department, but I think it's one of the few worthwhile human experiences. It's cooler than anything I can think of right now. — Trent Reznor

When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie. — Trent Reznor

I hated school . . . I freaking hated it. The fact is that it revolved around something you didn't have access to. If you weren't on the football team, if you were in the band, you were a leper. When people say those were the best years of our lives, I want to scream. — Trent Reznor

I become irritated when I am being written off as aloof or stand-offish when I'm shy and don't know what to say. — Trent Reznor

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. — Trent Reznor

Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and its intensified at a festival. — Trent Reznor

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

Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is. — Trent Reznor

There's something exciting and incredibly liberating for an artist to finish something Friday night and the world hears it Friday night instead of eight months later after marketing people and all those assholes get involved. — Trent Reznor

Nine Inch Nails was an experiment with me in discipline. I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything. Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting. I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100 percent, because I had never reached true failure. — Trent Reznor

I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure. — Trent Reznor

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. — Trent Reznor

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. — Trent Reznor

Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman. — Trent Reznor

I think the whole aspect of social networking is vulgar and repulsive in a lot of ways. — Trent Reznor

Why don’t the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided. — Trent Reznor

Bow down before the one you serve, you're going to get what you deserve. — Trent Reznor

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. — Trent Reznor

When an instrument fails on stage it mocks you and must be destroyed! — Trent Reznor

The dynamic of a relationship changes when one person gets sober. — Trent Reznor

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

Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look. — Trent Reznor

I'm kind of forced to get out of what might feel more natural and comfortable. — Trent Reznor

Grammy asshole weekend in LA. Yuck ... The Grammys = the old guard / old media propping up their puppets trying to convince the outside world, and each other, they're relevant. — Trent Reznor

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

I've got a canvas, I've got a scene, let’s fill that with sound. — Trent Reznor

I was up above it. Now, I'm down in it. — Trent Reznor

Apparently, the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me. — Trent Reznor

Try to find the right balance of keeping things exciting and treating your audience with respect, and also treating yourself as an artist with respect. — Trent Reznor

Perfect little dream, The kind that hurts the most. — Trent Reznor

Lots of people can have girlfriends. But I can throw around guitars onstage! That'll be my epitaph: 'He never had a girlfriend, but you should've seen him smash a Les Paul!' — Trent Reznor

All I've undergone I will keep on. — Trent Reznor

For each film, you try to create a whole world sonically, having a sense of identity through instruments used, or recording techniques. — Trent Reznor

Sometimes we pee on each other before we go on stage. — Trent Reznor

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. — Trent Reznor

Left to my own devices, in the face of the climate change deniers, the madness and the greed-based decision-making, and propaganda that's been floating around, it's hard not to become pessimistic. — Trent Reznor

Being human is a lot more difficult than being on tour. — Trent Reznor

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. — Trent Reznor

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

You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song. — Trent Reznor

This isn't meant to last. This is for right now. — Trent Reznor

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

An integral part of any relationship is knowing that you could be killed in your sleep at any time. — Trent Reznor

The least responsive audience I can ever remember playing to. — Trent Reznor

Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear. — Trent Reznor

In my nothing, you were everything, to me. — Trent Reznor

I didnt ask to save rock, I dont even like rock that much. — Trent Reznor

I was at my most miserable when I had everything I ever wanted. — Trent Reznor

I want to do something that matters. — Trent Reznor

To switch right into creativity usually takes a bit of time, and this came up right at that juncture where I thought, okay, here's an opportunity to work with somebody I really respect in a new medium. — Trent Reznor

Life Lessons by Trent Reznor

1. Trent Reznor has shown that hard work and dedication can lead to success, as he has achieved a great deal of success in the music industry despite having no formal music training.
2. His ability to think outside the box and experiment with different styles and genres has allowed him to stand out and make a name for himself.
3. His resilience and determination to keep pushing forward despite obstacles and setbacks is an inspiring example of what can be achieved with dedication and passion.