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" I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive. "
Moby
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" A lot of people do talk about the demise of the album, but I still believe that if an artist tries hard to make a great album, people will buy it and listen to it as an album, rather than just a collection of random songs. "
Moby
People
Random
Believe
" There are a lot of people in the animal rights movement who can be very passionate and aggressive, and I applaud people's passion, but when people are judgmental and aggressive, all you end up doing is getting other people to turn away in irritation. To change people's minds, you have to respect the people you're talking to. "
Moby
Passion
Animal
Change
" When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands. "
Moby
Jazz
Old
Guitar
" People assume that somehow fame and wealth will keep mortality at bay. "
Moby
Wealth
Keep
Fame
" I don't think there's anything wrong with not knowing how to play an instrument, but the rise of the non-musical producer has done away with musicianship and focused attention purely on the song's hook. "
Moby
Think
Song
Not Knowing
" 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 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. "
Moby
Children
Quality
Life
" I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult. "
Moby
Adult
Food
Food Stamps
" I have no patience for anyone who thinks they've figured things out, no patience for people who think they're right at the expense of everyone else. The world is too connected and too complicated to conform to any of our rigid ideas of what it should be like. "
Moby
Patience
Ideas
Think
" I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist. "
Moby
Science
Science Fiction
Up
" I remember New York in the '80s as a place with vacant lots that would eventually give over to nature. Weeds would grow up, squirrels would move in. That entropy is gone now. It's too expensive to let a vacant lot go natural. "
Moby
Place
Remember
Grow
" My mother and I were on welfare and food stamps until I was 18, so I've always had this ethos of, like, 'try and make a little bit of money now because you don't know what's going to happen tomorrow.' "
Moby
Money
Mother
You
" I need an audience way more than an audience needs me. "
Moby
Audience
Way
Than
" Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience. "
Moby
Experience
Touring
Strange
" 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. "
Moby
People
My Life
Music
" There is nothing terribly wrong with my face, even if some of its parts aren't very inspiring. "
Moby
Wrong
Face
Nothing
" I buy things with the best of intention of living in them and then life intercedes. "
Moby
Intention
Things
Living
" I truly believe, as an institution, most major labels should just die. "
Moby
Most
Labels
Just
" A great song is a great song, whether it's on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Then again, that might be an overly optimistic view, but I do think that great music will transcend the medium in which it is delivered. "
Moby
Song
Think
Music
" Musically, New York is a big influence on me. Walk down the street for five minutes and you'll hear homeless punk rockers, people playing Caribbean music and reggae, sacred Islamic music and Latino music, so many different types of music. "
Moby
New York
Walk
Influence
" 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. "
Moby
People
Hate
You
" When I was growing up, albums were my closest friends, as sad as that may sound - Joy Division's 'Closer,' or Echo and the Bunnymen's 'Heaven Up Here'... I had a more intimate relationship with those records than I did with most of the people in my life. "
Moby
People
Life
Relationship
" I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to. "
Moby
Community
Life
College
" 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. "
Moby
Music
Mom
Church
" One of the reasons why fundamentalists are so aggressive in trying to promote fundamentalism is because deep down they know it's arbitrary. If you're comfortable with your belief you don't need to convince other people to agree with you. "
Moby
Belief
Deep
Know
" The good thing about not being drop-dead gorgeous is that as time passes, I don't have much to worry about. I have friends who are actors and every day they look in the mirror with trepidation. "
Moby
Friends
Worry
Time
" When I was in my twenties, I thought I was bulletproof. "
Moby
Bulletproof
Thought
Twenties
" 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
" I've had insomnia since I was a little kid and I never sleep well. Sometimes I sleep very badly and sometimes I sleep slightly badly. I get it especially when I'm on tour because you cross a lot of time zones, and I'm not very adaptable. "
Moby
Never
Sometimes
Time
" When I do have time to work on music, I'm kind of selfish, and would rather work on my own stuff than someone else's. "
Moby
Music
Work
Time