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" The only sort of descriptive adjective or catch phrase for my music would be 'eclectic.' "
Moby
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" Every time you read an interview with a supermodel, they're always like, 'Oh, I was a such nerd.' I resent that a little bit. I was in the A/V club. I used to eat my lunch in a closet. "
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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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Financial
" A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music. "
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" I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive. "
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" I wasn't raised Catholic; I just really like the image of a neutral and benign Mary floating around somewhere, being nice to people. "
Moby
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People
" If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested. "
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" I still never get recognized. Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same. "
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Small
" Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise. "
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" 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. "
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Old
Guitar
" I'm envious of people who can sleep as long as they want. I have the circadian rhythm of a farmer. "
Moby
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Long
Who
" Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works. "
Moby
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" I wish I could sing. I don't technically have a terrible voice, but it's certainly not as good as most of my friends. Whenever I hear myself on a record, it just reminds me I'm not a very good singer. "
Moby
Voice
Good
Friends
" If one of my heroes comes to me and says, 'Do you want to work on something?' I just say, 'Yes.' I don't ask for details; I don't expect to get paid anything. I just love working with my heroes. "
Moby
Me
Heroes
Details
" In some of the greatest recordings ever made, the performance is a part of the recording. Dylan's 'Rainy Day Women No. 12 and 35' is all about the esthetic of that performance. You can hear the room. "
Moby
Day
You
Rainy Day
" It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences. "
Moby
Sometimes
Consequences
Decisions
" 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. "
Moby
Animal
Great
You
" I think there are two types of photographers, those who want to document the world and those who want to create their own world. I am more interested in documenting the world and presenting it to people with the question attached, 'Does this make any sense to you?' "
Moby
Think
You
People
" 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 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
" If you look at someone like Joe Strummer or John Lennon, when you heard their music you knew that they wrote it and they cared about it. "
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You
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" 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. "
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Music
Work
Time
" People love their favorite records. And I aspire to make a record someone might be able to love in that way. "
Moby
People
Able
Aspire
" I think the word 'blog' is an ugly word. I just don't know why people can't use the word 'journal.' "
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Ugly
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Journal
" I'll look through 'Us Weekly' and I'll see a picture of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Anniston. And I'm like, 'Wow, they just... they look so good. Even if they're like just wearing jeans and a t-shirt, they still look great.' "
Moby
Look
T-Shirt
See
" I was never encouraged to believe anything. I was brought up in a profoundly agnostic or pantheistic community. "
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Up
Community
Believe
" 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.' "
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Money
Mother
You
" I like noise. It's always puzzled me why one of the goals of contemporary recording is to get rid of noise and to eliminate any element of a performance. "
Moby
Performance
Me
Get
" I feel compelled to make art that on one hand reflects and sometimes almost creates like a sense of comfort when confronted with the strangeness of the world. "
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World
Comfort
Feel
" It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If you're a drummer, you just wait around for people to ask you to play drums. But if you have your own studio and can make music, you have the ability to approach music a lot differently. "
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People
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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. "
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Random
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