Moby quotes - page 6

The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine. (Moby)
But at the same time, I don't let myself regret things to the point that I'm paralyzed.
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Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist.
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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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I buy things with the best of intention of living in them and then life intercedes.
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Some of the songs I've made, I'm really disappointed in how I mixed them.
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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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I love going on tour and playing music for people.
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Could you look at animal in the eyes and say to it "my appetite is more important than your suffering"? I hope not.
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I'm like a monk with a taste for hookers.
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Every single day the world seems like it is on the brink of falling apart. But then I look outside my window, and things look about the same as they did a week ago. It's almost a form of cognitive dissonance. (Moby)
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.
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It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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I'd just rather have a really sharp, interesting, smart gay son than some big dumb hetero meathead.
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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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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. (Moby)
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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My uncle is from Argentina, so I grew up hearing Spanish. My Spanish isn't very good, but my pronunciation isn't terrible.
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There's a fairly extensive network of musicians on tour who are all trying to stay sober, and we generally reach out to each other and offer support when and where we can.
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When you say 'failure,' that seems really dramatic, but a lot of failure is just really depressing and mundane. I remember the first time I ever played a concert in Italy. I played a venue that held 900 people, and I think five people showed up. It wasn't a big, 'John Carter of Mars' type failure. It wasn't dramatic; it was just depressing.
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