Moby Quotes

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Moby

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 11, 1965

But at the same time, I don't let myself regret things to the point that I'm paralyzed.

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I find myself for whatever reason unable to live in the apartment I renovate and have to sell.

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I buy things with the best of intention of living in them and then life intercedes.

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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 was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult.

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That is not all I need. I need dogs. A house filled with dogs and a smart, funny, kind, loving girlfriend or wife.

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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.

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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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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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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.

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I've worked with all sorts of random people - everybody from Metallica to Britney Spears to Ozzy Osbourne to Michael Jackson to the Beastie Boys. I've got a really strange CV. It's interesting - I work with a lot of these disparate, different people to learn what it's like to work with random people.

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If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives.

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Actually, the most entitled people I've met are indie rockers and indie actors, because they really believe their press.

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In the long, nonillustrious history of white people pilfering African American culture, have I just perpetrated that? I'm motivated by a love for the music and by a love of the performances, and I really hope I haven't done anything bad.

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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.

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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.

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A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music.

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At the risk of sounding pedestrian, I'll be completely honest: the first thing I do in the morning is check Google News, partially because it seems sort of random and unbiased and partially because I tend to stay in hotels that don't necessarily have the fastest Internet connections.

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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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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.

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