Top 60 Trent Reznor Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “If I could start again, a million miles away, I would keep myself, I would find a way.”

— Trent Reznor

2. “God is DEAD, and no one cares! If there is a hell I’ll see you there!”

— Trent Reznor

3. “Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look.”

— Trent Reznor

4. “If you have something to say, then say it. Express yourself and break the rules.”

— Trent Reznor

5. “I want to do something that matters.”

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6. “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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7. “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.”

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8. “I was at my most miserable when I had everything I ever wanted.”

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9. “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

10. “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.”

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11. “I believe there’s a God but I’m not too sure of his relevance.”

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12. “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.”

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13. “An integral part of any relationship is knowing that you could be killed in your sleep at any time.”

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14. “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.”

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15. “Tired faith all worn and thin, for all we could have done, and all that could have been.”

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16. “All I’ve undergone I will keep on.”

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17. “I was up above it. Now, I’m down in it.”

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18. “When an instrument fails on stage it mocks you and must be destroyed!”

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19. “Sometimes I think I spend my whole life trying to figure out where I fit in.”

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20. “This isn’t meant to last. This is for right now.”

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21. “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.”

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22. “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.”

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23. “I really try to put myself in uncomfortable situations. Complacency is my enemy.”

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24. “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.”

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25. “I’ll be there for you, as long as it works for me. I play a game, its called insincerity.”

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26. “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.”

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27. “I write most of my songs when I’m in a bad mood.”

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28. “Perfect little dream, The kind that hurts the most.”

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29. “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!’”

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

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31. “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.”

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32. “There’s nothing like a stressful day.”

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33. “My moral standing is lying down.”

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34. “The Grammys make me hate music, and certainly everyone in the ass-licking music industry.”

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35. “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.”

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36. “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.”

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37. “Today’s political climate does not allow the luxury of apathy.”

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38. “I’ve become impossible, holding on to when everything seemed to matter more.”

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39. “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.”

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40. “I’d never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.”

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41. “Why don’t the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap – like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided.”

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42. “Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.”

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43. “I feel uncomfortable because I’m insecure about who I am.”

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44. “Being human is a lot more difficult than being on tour.”

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45. “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.”

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46. “I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything.”

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47. “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.”

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48. “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.”

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49. “Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and its intensified at a festival.”

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50. “I think theres something strangely musical about noise.”

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