Trent Reznor Quotes

I used to buy vinyl. Today, if you do put out a record on a label, traditionally, most people are going to hear it via a leak that happens two weeks - if not two months - before it comes out. There's no real way around that.

When I made my first album, there was no indication that anybody other than my parents were going to buy it.

After we wrote The Wreckoning, our record label did listen.

Until it's on the radio or online, it's not real. With U2, our album isn't finished until it's in the stores.

Virgin Records will probably release their own package sometime next year.

I think mp3s are great if you are unknown and trying to get started. It's a good way to get your music out and about. But for those who are established, it's not good at all.

There is no point in putting out 'The Complete BBC Sessions,' and someone's growling that you missed something.

I make records all the time. But making records is not quite the same as getting them to the audience.

I posted some songs on MySpace, and right away people started asking, 'Where can I get a CD?'

For me, the idea of releasing a free record is powerful if everybody gets it for free at the same time.

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.

It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and you had a hit.

I can work my butt off and create an album that's wonderful, but if it's never played and never given the outlet, it won't succeed.

I miss how a record label can help spread the word that you have something out.

When you don't have a record label and you have been on your own as we have, you can look at all these other ways you can get in touch with other people and get music out there again.

I feel like I'd like to continue putting out records and start putting them out more rapidly than I have until now and for me if I can keep selling the records to the fans that already like me that's fine.

A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.

Back in the day people made music to go on tour. They didn't make music to make a video.

I actually don't think that I'm gonna sell a lot of records.

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.

I asked my friend Greg Andersson to introduce me to people that can distribute my album.

Yes it was we, are a few years back parted from our record company and took the album that we were making with them and released it independently in the United States had a number one Independent debut in the United States.

It's such a stupid thing to sign a band and then demand a hit right away to instantly recoup the money. The point is, you have to do it by building your own following, and that is not necessarily done by writing instant hits.

Napster is great so long as they put out tracks on there that have been officially released. I don't really mind people downloading my music; I also see it as a compliment. And if you are a real music lover, you want to have the original CD anyway 'cause then you feel more connected to the artist.

Our first record, 'Huey Lewis And The News', was seen by no one - it sold 25 copies.