Trent Reznor Quotes

When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff.

And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now.

If I had to live on record sales, I'd be pushing up the daisies.

It's harder and harder to sell records now. You've got to give extra value. You've got to give people a reason to go out and buy it rather than burn a friend's copy.

I still believe in putting something out and not asking people to buy the record, then buy a ticket to my show and then buy a t-shirt and then a, like, copy of the show they just saw on CD. That's undignified to me.

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

I think it's ridiculous to try to sell records to teenagers, because teenagers don't buy my records. And there ain't that many teenagers out there in the marketplace.

Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn't that unbelievable? That's 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day.

The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups.

I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.

Don't believe bands who say it's all about the fans and they want to give their music away for free. The result is they will continue to live in their mother's basement.

Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the charts.

Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.

The music industry is in such poor shape; it's in a really bad way, and a lot of people in the industry are very depressed.

I've never made a dime from a record sale in the history of my record deal. I've been very happy with my sales, and certainly my audience has been very supportive. I make a living going out and playing shows.

I grew up in the day when the Beatles sold 1 million singles in a week. And all you've got to do now is sell about 10,000 singles and you're in the charts.

Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.

If you are a musician who has released albums, it would perhaps be morbidly interesting to know how much you would be owed if everyone who now has your music had actually bought your record.

I want to make more fans, sell records.

I think records are irrelevant, but I'm being approached about it all the time. If I could avoid it, that would be great.

The streets buy records, but they don't really buy records in incredible numbers.

It's not about what hits Billboard or how many views you got on a video. It's about copies sold. It's about streams, you know?

People don't buy CDs so much anymore because it's easy to download everything. So, while the record industry is declining, the music is heard a lot more than before.

I don't really sell many records.

I'm not sure if music got a future. We have all these electronic ways to download and steal music and get music, but there's no money in makin' music.