Trent Reznor Quotes

When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmons or someone like that, who has acknowledged that they are writing music for a character.

Trent Reznor

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MusicCharacterWritingSomeoneLike

I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.

Jerry Spinelli

BestPeopleWritingFeelingsWant

In reality, everyone is good in bed. Close eyes. Shutdown brain. Pause as necessary. Restart brain. Open eyes. What's there to not be good at? Bed is the one place where laziness is rewarded.

John Dobbin

GoodEyesBrainRealityLaziness

If I play my cards right, I could bring network wrestling back to TV. Unfortunately, to most people, wrestling is a laughingstock. But fortunately, I'm reaching people who otherwise wouldn't watch it.

Andy Kaufman

PeopleBackCardsPlayWrestling

I really do listen to all types of music, not only rock, but everything from good pop music - which is usually older pop music - to R&B and indie rock. I love indie rock more than a lot of the commercial stuff that you'd expect.

Amy Lee

LoveGoodMusicYouRockListen

I'm a fan myself and I'm frustrated just as much as them when we get beat.

Steven Gerrard

MyselfBeatGetJustFanMuch

My inspirations were 'Macho Man' Randy Savage and Andre the Giant. It was easy to understand their character.

Shinsuke Nakamura

CharacterManEasyUnderstandSavage

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

Jose Bergamin

IntelligenceCivilizationOwnWeight

Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you get offered all kinds of things and there's a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture.

Jonah Hill

CultureMoneyYouTemptationBad

I think the way I look at things gives me a different perspective. I'm most valuable when I work with a team of bright people who complement my weaknesses with their strengths.

Craig McCaw

WorkPerspectivePeopleMeTeamWay

One of the biggest obstacles I've overcome in my life was thinking I didn't deserve to be successful. Artistically I'm not as much of a heavyweight as someone like Paul Simon or Joni Mitchell, because I'm not a creator of original music, and I worried about that for years.

Bonnie Raitt

LifeMusicObstaclesThinkingYears

I'm not a tour rat. I'm not crazy about it.

Bob Seger

CrazyRatTourAbout

The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

PeopleIdeasUpsetWillOrderYour

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