American - Musician | May 17, 1965 -
I doubt I'll ever pay someone to do a remix again, because there's some amazing stuff just coming out of bedrooms.
Trent Reznor
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One of the biggest wake-up calls of my career was when I saw a record contract. I said, 'Wait - you sell it for $18.98 and I make 80 cents? And I have to pay you back the money you lent me to make it and then you own it?'
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I often find myself listening to a record because a lot of people or magazines have told me it's good and I'm supposed to like it, and I try to stay in touch with what's happening and I'm also a fan of music. I find myself trying to like something that I really don't think is that great.
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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.
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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.
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Musicians have always adopted Macs.
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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?'
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When I sit down to make a set list I usually think, 'We'll build it up here, take it down here, go into a quiet section here, explode here,' in a way that there's a flow and it doesn't feel like shuffle on an iPod.
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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 don't have to save rock. I don't even like rock that much.
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When fame presented itself to me, I was not at a point in my life where I was equipped to deal with it.
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I believe sometimes you have a choice in what inspiration you choose to follow and other times you really don't.
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