Moby Quotes

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Moby

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 11, 1965

There might be a lot of difference between Republicans and Democrats on key social issues like women's rights and health care. But when it comes to taking corporate cash, they're pretty much the same beast.

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Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and vegetarian-friendly restaurants.

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Mainly I'm a vegan because I like animals, and I don't want to be involved in their suffering. Also, it's better for my health and for the environment.

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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.

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I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked sense of humor.

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Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same.

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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 monk with a taste for hookers.

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You make mistakes and you learn from them.

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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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My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing.

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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.

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There is nothing terribly wrong with my face, even if some of its parts aren't very inspiring.

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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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I love the idea of making records that people can use, records that have a sense of utility.

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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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A part of me wants to sort of try and sound cool and feed this myth that I'm some sort of glamorous lothario, but I was raised by women - my mother and her mother and my aunts - and as a result, most of my friends have always been women.

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What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.

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One of the nice things about licensing music to movies or advertisements is you can reach a lot of people who normally wouldn't hear music.

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I run into a lot of people who are instantly filled with ridicule at the idea that someone wouldn't eat meat.

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