Quotes About Nine Inch Nails

#1. Nine Inch Nails is like building an army to go conquer. We build it, then we play, and we have to play so much to validate building it, financially. It leads to getting burn-out because a tour that would be fun if it lasted three weeks has to last 15 weeks.

Trent Reznor

#2. With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.

Zakk Wylde

#3. I'd always hoped that love would be enough. Otherwise it's just a Nine Inch Nails song.

Karina Halle

#4. Nine Inch Nails were the best and most popular industrial band of all time; as a consequence, industrial purists usually assert that Nine Inch Nails aren't an industrial band at all (this is a counterintuitive phenomenon that tends to occur with purists from all subcultures, musical or otherwise).

Chuck Klosterman

#5. Nine Inch Nails' sound is dominated by clanging synths and sardonic, shrieking vocals.

Michael Azerrad

#6. I've always liked the heavier stuff. I've always loved Tool and System of a Down, Korn and Nine Inch Nails.

Rick Springfield

#7. I love James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails.

Nat Wolff

#8. Throughout my years in From First to Last, I was always dabbling and making electronic music on my own time. The first records I ever owned were crossover electronic rock, like Prodigy, Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails.

Skrillex

#9. Things on the essential list: vodka, Nine Inch Nails, a steady supply of mortal men, and an all-purpose bitchy attitude.

Richelle Mead

#10. But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.

Daisy Berkowitz

#11. Self-examination with a close-up mirror in an antiseptic environment is what Nine Inch Nails is based on.

Trent Reznor

#12. There's always been an element of 'right time, right place' to Nine Inch Nails. When we stepped onstage at Woodstock '94, I could sense it. I get goosebumps thinking about it now. Like, 'I don't know how we did this, but somehow we've touched a nerve.'

Trent Reznor

#13. I love nineties stuff like Alice in Chains and Nine Inch Nails. It'd be my dream to have a Radiohead-themed episode of 'Glee.' I also love jazz greats like Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Herbie Hancock.

Mark Salling

#14. There does seem to be a kind of split. There are those people who are more entrenched in the early electronic years, and new people who have come to it because of people like Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson.

Gary Numan

#15. In Nine Inch Nails, I've been the guy calling the shots since inception. I'd gotten used to that.

Trent Reznor

#16. With a Nine Inch Nails show, I'm building on a legacy that comes with a certain set of expectations. I have to push that forward, I have to reinvent myself, I have to feel current and valid.

Trent Reznor

#17. I like Nine Inch Nails, and I like hip-hop.

Axl Rose

#18. As a producer, I'm trying to challenge myself to just make something that is of a professional quality - not necessarily pop music, but maybe in the sense that Nine Inch Nails is professional quality.

Grimes

#19. Nine Inch Nails was born out of Cleveland, Ohio, with me and a friend in a studio working on demos at night. Got a record deal with a small, little label, went on tour in a van, and a couple years later found that somehow we touched a nerve, and that first record resonated with a bunch of people.

Trent Reznor

#20. As long as it feels valid to me and feels sincere, I'll do what I do under the moniker of Nine Inch Nails if it's appropriate. I would hate to think I would ever be in a position where I'm faking it to get a paycheck.

Trent Reznor

#21. 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

#22. I'm sure there is a group of people that assume Nine Inch Nails is just noise and chaos - or whatever it might be dismissed as, and sometimes is.

Trent Reznor

#23. I lived a fairly average, anonymous small-town life till I got the idea to do Nine Inch Nails. Then I locked myself in a studio for a year, and then got off the tour bus two years after that, and I didn't know who I'd turned into.

Trent Reznor

#24. I like the idea of working in an album-sized chunk, you know, and I never looked at Nine Inch Nails as a project that would be a hit-driven, single-based kind of thing.

Trent Reznor

#25. It probably wasn't until Nine Inch Nails played the first Lollapalooza that I actually went to a festival.

Trent Reznor

#26. If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Montesquieu

#27. You must know all there is to know in your particular field and keep on the alert for new knowledge. The least difference in knowledge between you and another man may spell his success and your failure.

Henry Ford

#28. When I got saved, God became my art agent.

Thomas Kincade

#29. Without you everything falls apart. Without you it's not as much fun to pick up the pieces.

Nine Inch Nails

#30. It won't give up, it wants me dead
Goddamn this noise inside my head

Trent Reznor

#31. Money increases happiness only when it lifts people out of poverty to about $50,000 a year in income.

John Medina

#32. - I see the real world, Nancy. But it doesn't seem real to me.
- How does it seem?
- It seems like an illusion that nobody notices.

Stevie Mikayne

#33. Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

Pierre Loti