My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing. — Moby Copy Share Image
I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms. — Moby Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of making music is to get it heard by as many people as possible. — Moby Copy Share Image
New York has inspired more remarkable music than any other city I can think of. — Moby Copy Share Image
I just want to try - on a daily basis keep trying - to make music that I really love. — Moby Copy Share Image
For his sake I'm sorry that Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil, but for our sake and the sake of… — Moby Copy Share Image
I'd much rather go out and have music randomly presented to me by different DJs than stay home and discover it on… — Moby Copy Share Image
I’ve never seen the need to choose one type of music at the exclusion of another. That would feel kind of sad… — Moby Copy Share Image
There are certain songs that if people come up to me and tell me how much that song meant to them, I… — Moby Copy Share Image
There is a long and interesting tradition of really marginal left-field music that becomes commercially successful. And I will, for a brief… — Moby Copy Share Image
There's not a lot of precedent for weird, bald musicians in the Lower East Side making records in their bedrooms and going… — Moby Copy Share Image
Scotland is one of my favourite places to perform: it's really something special. Scottish audiences are just so enthusiastic; their approach to… — Moby Copy Share Image
Doing interviews and touring are two ways that I can try to bring my music to people. It can be tiring, but… — Moby Copy Share Image
My interest in gospel music and liturgical art and Biblically-inspired literature has nothing to do with organised religion and everything to do… — Moby Copy Share Image
When I was fifteen years old, the only distinction in music my friends and I made was [that] there's music made by… — Moby Copy Share Image
The main thing that excites me and makes me want to get out of bed is the thought of being able to… — Moby Copy Share Image
I think that the current climate enables a lot of musicians to do relatively well. Twenty-five years ago, you could be a… — Moby Copy Share Image
It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If… — Moby Copy Share Image
Musicians, actors, writers - we're all neurotic, odd people who've lucked into accidental careers. So I just don't like being around public… — Moby Copy Share Image
There are a lot of musicians who are still desperately trying to pretend that it's 1998 and by having a huge marketing… — Moby Copy Share Image
There are so many musicians, friends of mine, who play shows for ten people a night, or always desperately wanted a record… — Moby Copy Share Image
I change my mind about things - for a while I was punk rocker, and if you weren't a punk rocker you… — Moby Copy Share Image
That’s why I make music. When I listen to my favorite music made by other people, that’s what it does to me.… — Moby Copy Share Image
How do I transform pain. I guess the number one way in which I do that is by working on music, but… — Moby Copy Share Image
Punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business. — Moby Copy Share Image
When playing big festivals, I tend to play big, over the top techno tracks, like hands in the air songs that make… — Moby Copy Share Image
In the long, nonillustrious history of white people pilfering African American culture, have I just perpetrated that? I'm motivated by a love… — Moby Copy Share Image
Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise. — Moby Copy Share Image
Up until I started working with him, I had thought that music was a nice thing that I enjoyed and liked making,… — Moby Copy Share Image
If you look at the history of popular music, the most successful musicians have started out being really marginal and esoteric. The… — Moby Copy Share Image
I won't complain about touring, because I really do believe that a public-figure musician complaining about being a public-figure musician is just… — Moby Copy Share Image
As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk… — Moby Copy Share Image
I honestly just love being in my studio working on music. That's all the inspiration I need. And I don't write with… — Moby Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anything wrong with not knowing how to play an instrument, but the rise of the non-musical producer has… — Moby Copy Share Image
If I spend 100 days in a row making music there’s a chance nothing will come of it. But if I spend… — Moby Copy Share Image
In the course of my life, I've made some happy songs but it's the more sort of like pathos-laden, emotional, melancholic music… — Moby Copy Share Image
I feel like once the song is done, you put it out there and if people want to do bizarre remixes, if… — Moby Copy Share Image
I love lots of different types of music, but it's music that has this up-swelling of beauty and emotion that is most… — Moby Copy Share Image
I don't think too much about how it might exist in the world in a commercial sense - I more just try… — Moby Copy Share Image
If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't… — Moby Copy Share Image
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… — Moby Copy Share
A great song is a great song, whether it's on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Then again, that… — Moby Copy Share
When I dj at big venues I try to play tracks that I would want to hear if I were e'd up in a… — Moby Copy Share
The good thing about not being drop-dead gorgeous is that as time passes, I don't have much to worry about. I have friends who… — Moby Copy Share
When you look at the consequences of climate change, at rainforest deforestation, at antibiotic resistance, these are not necessarily political issues, but rather issues… — Moby Copy Share
What I love about making albums in the 21st century is that so few people buy albums! I can make an album without any… — Moby Copy Share
Factory-farm lobbyists are so powerful and so well funded and they do everything in their power to hide the truth about farming. They keep… — Moby Copy Share
Up until I started working with him, I had thought that music was a nice thing that I enjoyed and liked making, but it… — Moby Copy Share
I'm obsessed with politics, and I talk about it any chance I can get. I have strong opinions about how the world should be… — Moby Copy Share
“I had an epiphany a few years ago when I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I… — Moby Copy Share
I think that, for a lot of us, the closer we get to showing people who we really are, that's where we feel the… — Moby Copy Share
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