Song Quotes by Moby

Music is just air moving around.

— Moby

I like singing, but it's certainly not my strong point.

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I always just made music that resonates with me emotionally.

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I sing in the reaches. We'll see what we find

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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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The demise of the monolithic record industry has been, for a lot of people, really liberating and emancipating.

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I truly believe, as an institution, most major labels should just die.

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

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

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These new metal bands are going out, getting drunk and going to strip clubs, and they'll be doing the same in thirty…

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There's not a lot of precedent for weird, bald musicians in the Lower East Side making records in their bedrooms and going…

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When I was fifteen years old, the only distinction in music my friends and I made was [that] there's music made by…

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If I'm walking down the street and someone stops me and says, "Oh! A song that you wrote meant a lot to…

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I don't think of myself as a singer; I usually end up singing when I can't find anyone better to sing, or…

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When playing big festivals, I tend to play big, over the top techno tracks, like hands in the air songs that make…

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Up until I started working with him, I had thought that music was a nice thing that I enjoyed and liked making,…

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There are certain songs that if people come up to me and tell me how much that song meant to them, I…

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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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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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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 are a lot of musicians who are still desperately trying to pretend that it's 1998 and by having a huge marketing…

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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…

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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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I think it'd be great if Prince made an album of just romantic, slow ballads.

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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 just want to try - on a daily basis keep trying - to make music that I really love.

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I’ve never seen the need to choose one type of music at the exclusion of another. That would feel kind of sad…

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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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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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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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People have always been resistant to change. If you go back to the 17th, 18th century, playing guitar was frowned upon. When…

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There is a long and interesting tradition of really marginal left-field music that becomes commercially successful. And I will, for a brief…

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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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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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