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" Traffic terrifies me. "
Moby
Me
Traffic
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" When you say 'failure,' that seems really dramatic, but a lot of failure is just really depressing and mundane. I remember the first time I ever played a concert in Italy. I played a venue that held 900 people, and I think five people showed up. It wasn't a big, 'John Carter of Mars' type failure. It wasn't dramatic; it was just depressing. "
Moby
Failure
Time
Think
" It's a very strange phenomenon being hated by people you've never met. Some journalists just seem to hate me and everything I do, and it's disconcerting because I've never met this person. "
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People
Hate
You
" If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives. "
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World
True
Republican
" I love it when celebrities fall apart. "
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I Love
Celebrities
Fall
" There are a lot of musicians who are still desperately trying to pretend that it's 1998 and by having a huge marketing campaign, they somehow believe that they can sell 10 million records. That's delusional. No one sells 10 million records. The days of musicians getting rich off of selling records are done. "
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Believe
Done
Trying
" Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn. "
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Never
Success
Learn
" For me to speak out against the war in Iraq, you know - most of my fans are lefties anyway, so I don't really get much flack for it. "
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Know
Fans
War
" I joined Facebook purely so I could play online Scrabble. You have eight tiles instead of seven, so you tend to have higher scores. I'm somewhere between 400 and 500. "
Moby
Facebook
You
Somewhere
" There is a lot of music in the world that I love that does not always get the appropriate exposure. "
Moby
Music
Love
World
" People assume that somehow fame and wealth will keep mortality at bay. "
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Wealth
Keep
Fame
" In the course of my life, I've made some happy songs but it's the more sort of like pathos-laden, emotional, melancholic music that either I make or that other people make that really resonates with me. "
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People
My Life
Music
" Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling. "
Moby
Growing Up
Diversity
Growing
" What sounds good on the radio is really loud kick drums and loud snare drums, when everything's bombastic and in your face. It's the equivalent of a houseguest who screams all the time. "
Moby
Time
Who
Radio
" When I went to university, I was a philosophy major, but because I'm not very bright I chose to study philosophy at a performing arts school, maybe because the philosophy program there wasn't too rigorous or challenging. "
Moby
School
Study
Philosophy
" I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive. "
Moby
Much
Rather
Show
" NASA is an utterly fascinating place, and the fact that the buildings look so anonymous almost makes it more fascinating. You walk by a generic office-park-looking building, and you have no idea what's going on inside. "
Moby
Building
Place
You
" When 'Play' first came out, journalists didn't review it; it didn't get radio play. And then it became this big successful record and, I hate to admit this, I found myself liking the fame. I bought into it. "
Moby
Play
Fame
Myself
" Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise. "
Moby
Recording
Looks
Become
" I don't sleep very well when I travel. And as a result, I tend to be awake in cities when everyone else is asleep. "
Moby
Result
Awake
Sleep
" It's enshrined in our Constitution that an individual has a right to release information and disseminate information that makes the powers that be uncomfortable. "
Moby
Uncomfortable
Constitution
Information
" But on a utilitarian level, I realize that to try to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number of people, sometimes we have to become salesmen for what we believe, and part of being a salesman is being effective. "
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People
Believe
Good
" Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same. "
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Small
Look
Kind
" I believe that the role of limited government should be looking after the needs of veterans, the elderly, children and those institutions that improve the quality of life for struggling families - I don't believe that government should bend to serve the needs of subsidized multi-national corporations and entitled billionaires. "
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Children
Quality
Life
" For better or worse, I'm interested in just about everything: every different type of music I can imagine. I can never see a reason to choose just one type of music at the exclusion of everything else. Different types of music are capable of being rewarding in different kinds of ways. "
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Choose
See
Music
" I walk out my front door in New York and I'm out on the street and there are people everywhere. L.A. is so much more spread out, so it's really easy in L.A. to have a little more isolation and to just not see as many people. "
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Door
Walk
People
" If you and I become vegans, the global consequences aren't going to be that much. But if we can get a few hundred million people to become a little more aware and cut back on their animal consumption, the consequences will be great. "
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Animal
Great
You
" Many of my friends back in New York and elsewhere have a glib or dismissive attitude toward Los Angeles. It's a place of strip malls and traffic and not much else, in their opinion. "
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New York
Attitude
Friends
" You can sit down with Reason or Ableton and literally in a couple of hours make a very good-sounding record. But then a lot of people become contented with that, rather than pushing themselves to making something that sounds great. "
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Great
Down
Become
" The progressive movement needs more crazy and amoral/immoral right-wing politicians and pundits like Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich and Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity. "
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Politicians
Crazy
Like
" I love the idea of making records that people can use, records that have a sense of utility. "
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People
Love
Idea