When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music. — Moby Copy Share Image
The demise of the monolithic record industry has been, for a lot of people, really liberating and emancipating. — Moby Copy Share Image
There is a lot of music in the world that I love that does not always get the appropriate exposure. — Moby Copy Share Image
Music can always serve a role in people's lives when it's emotional and warm and inviting and beautiful. — Moby Copy Share Image
For me my biggest inspiration is trying to make music that effects me as much as the music made by my heroes. — Moby Copy Share Image
When someone comes to me and says the music I've made has affected them emotionally, that's the most gratifying part of my… — Moby Copy Share Image
A great song is a great song, whether it's on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Then… — Moby Copy Share Image
An artist in 2014 who is thinking about album sales is either sadly deluded or has to make so many commercial compromises… — Moby Copy Share Image
There's a fairly extensive network of musicians on tour who are all trying to stay sober, and we generally reach out to… — Moby Copy Share Image
People have always been resistant to change. If you go back to the 17th, 18th century, playing guitar was frowned upon. When… — 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
If I'm walking down the street and someone stops me and says, "Oh! A song that you wrote meant a lot to… — Moby Copy Share Image
When I saw music as a means to an end - more fame, more money, dating celebrities - that's when things have… — Moby Copy Share Image
I learned in the last few years that it's really unhappy and really unsustainable to try and base your well being on… — Moby Copy Share Image
When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played… — Moby Copy Share Image
One of the central flaws in the state of contemporary music is that the major record companies have failed to incorporate that… — 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
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
I think it'd be great if Prince made an album of just romantic, slow ballads. — Moby Copy Share Image
I'm a weird, bald musician who makes records in his bedroom and lives in the Lower East Side. — Moby Copy Share Image
The aggressive, energised, political, or even politicised, culturally aware music hasn't really existed [recently]. — Moby Copy Share Image
I know it's simple, but my main inspiration is just my love of music. I know that sounds overly naive. But it's… — Moby Copy Share Image
All I want to do with my life is try and make music that I really love, and so every day I… — 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
I just want to try - on a daily basis keep trying - to make music that I really love. — 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
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
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
I don't think of myself as a singer; I usually end up singing when I can't find anyone better to sing, or… — 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
These new metal bands are going out, getting drunk and going to strip clubs, and they'll be doing the same in thirty… — 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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