I used to have a lot of envy for those musicians who have been universally loved. — Moby Copy Share Image
When I do have time to work on music, I'm kind of selfish, and would rather work on my own stuff than… — 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
A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music. — 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
The only sort of descriptive adjective or catch phrase for my music would be 'eclectic.' — Moby Copy Share Image
I'm straight, but I love going to house music clubs and flirting with women and gay men. — Moby Copy Share Image
I find the fact that so few people buy albums to be strangely emancipating. There's absolutely no reason for 99% of musicians… — Moby Copy Share Image
The way I work on music is that I go into my studio, and I start playing music, and I see what… — 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
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
When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched… — Moby Copy Share Image
It just seems like musicians want to sell a few records and put out a perfume line, and I think it's so… — Moby Copy Share Image
I have nothing against bombastic music, but when it comes to making albums, I'd prefer to make music that has a sort… — 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
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
For years, my mom dated a man who was really active in the Baptist church in the town next to the town… — Moby Copy Share Image
I guess the most emotional part is when I have that moment when I end up writing something that I really, really… — 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
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
In some ways it's hard to see electronic music as a genre because the word "electronic" just refers to how it's made.… — Moby Copy Share Image
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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