Music Quotes by Moby

I love going on tour and playing music for people.

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Music is just air moving around.

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I always just made music that resonates with me emotionally.

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When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music.

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I'm straight, but I love going to house music clubs and flirting with women and gay men.

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I used to have a lot of envy for those musicians who have been universally loved.

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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…

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There is a lot of music in the world that I love that does not always get the appropriate exposure.

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Music can always serve a role in people's lives when it's emotional and warm and inviting and beautiful.

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David Lynch is my friend, and I love his movies and his art and his music. Few things make me happier than…

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For me my biggest inspiration is trying to make music that effects me as much as the music made by my heroes.

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I've been making electronic music for twenty some odd years but, because I grew up playing in punk rock bands, when I…

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A great song is a great song, whether it's on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Then…

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An artist in 2014 who is thinking about album sales is either sadly deluded or has to make so many commercial compromises…

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I can't think of any musician or producer who has influenced me more than Brian Eno. From when he was in Roxy…

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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…

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I've experienced tons of failure. I've been making music for 30 years, and I'd say failure and success have happened in equal measure.

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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…

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When I tour I'm going to countries to play music for people. My presence in a country is not an endorsement or…

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When I saw music as a means to an end - more fame, more money, dating celebrities - that's when things have…

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In some ways it's hard to see electronic music as a genre because the word "electronic" just refers to how it's made.…

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I learned in the last few years that it's really unhappy and really unsustainable to try and base your well being on…

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There's really no reason for any musician, writer, actor to ever take themselves seriously. If you work in a needle exchange, take…

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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…

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One of the central flaws in the state of contemporary music is that the major record companies have failed to incorporate that…

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I guess the most emotional part is when I have that moment when I end up writing something that I really, really…

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For years, my mom dated a man who was really active in the Baptist church in the town next to the town…

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In 1992 I was doing one of my first ever tours and I was in Heathrow airport and I saw these middle-aged…

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Up until the rise of electronic music, if you were a musician in Portugal or Germany or Italy or Japan, and you…

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Some of the songs I've made, I'm really disappointed in how I mixed them.

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When someone comes to me and says the music I've made has affected them emotionally, that's the most gratifying part of my…

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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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The only sort of descriptive adjective or catch phrase for my music would be 'eclectic.'

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I'm a weird, bald musician who makes records in his bedroom and lives in the Lower East Side.

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The aggressive, energised, political, or even politicised, culturally aware music hasn't really existed [recently].

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Luckily almost no one buys music anymore, so selling music doesn't really affect any of my professional decisions.

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Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist.

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I know it's simple, but my main inspiration is just my love of music. I know that sounds overly naive. But it's…

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All I want to do with my life is try and make music that I really love, and so every day I…

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I think that Eminem is very talented and remarkably bright, and I actually do like a lot of his music.

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