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Checkout quotes by Trent Reznor on Music

• ‟ I've said it before and I'll say it again: I don't think music should be free.

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• ‟ 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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• ‟ I think the thing I've always tried to do is - and I didn't plan it, it just started to come out that way - is try to make challenging music that flirts with accessibility.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I currently am.

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• ‟ It's easy to get lost in the shuffle, and just enticing people to hear the music for free doesn't mean that much when everyone else is essentially doing the same thing on MySpace, or wherever.

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• ‟ I'm a lot less precious than I used to be about putting things out, for better or for worse. 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.

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

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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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