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" I love going on tour and playing music for people. "
Moby
People
Music
Love
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" 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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" 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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" If Nirvana had remained a small, underground punk rock band, Kurt Cobain would still be alive. And he'd probably be living in Seattle, getting kind of fat and balding, be relatively happy and producing records for other people. "
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" I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms. "
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" I'm like a monk with a taste for hookers. "
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" As music became more profitable in the 1990s, it seemed like it attracted a lot of people who were just interested in the financial aspect of it, which is depressing. "
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" Punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business. "
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" 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. "
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" The only sort of descriptive adjective or catch phrase for my music would be 'eclectic.' "
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" In a perfect world, I would be 6-foot-3 and have a perfect head of hair and look like Orlando Bloom. "
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" For years, my mom dated a man who was really active in the Baptist church in the town next to the town I grew up in, and so he used to drag me to these Baptist church services that lasted forever. I remember that I didn't like the church services, but I really liked the music. "
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Mom
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" You know, if you love something, you should love it regardless of whether it costs five dollars or 500 or 5,000 dollars. Unfortunately, that's not the way our culture works, and we do collectively buy into this idea that things that are more expensive probably have more value. "
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Know
Value
" I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good. "
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Original
Like
Theme
" I always feel kind of absurd and presumptuous presenting a speech. "
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Absurd
Always
Feel
" 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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" I made a record in 1996 called 'Animal Rights' that was a very difficult, very dark punk-rock record. Of all the records I've made, it's my favorite one. It's also the one that got the worst reviews and sold the worst. "
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" In 1991 I did an interview wherein I described myself as a 'teetotal Christian,' which was an exaggeration, although I do like tea and Christ. "
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" David Lynch is my friend, and I love his movies and his art and his music. Few things make me happier than working with him. "
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Love
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Friend
" Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience. "
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Experience
Touring
Strange
" 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. "
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" If I was a sex symbol, I would be getting laid a lot more than I am now. "
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" 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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" I like tea and yoga, but I don't do yoga. "
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" If you care about women's rights, you can't not vote. "
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" The way I work on music is that I go into my studio, and I start playing music, and I see what happens, and... I never think about it. "
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" 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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" I buy things with the best of intention of living in them and then life intercedes. "
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