Moby Quotes

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• Music is just air moving around.
• Sacha Baron Cohen is one of my heroes.
• I need an audience way more than an audience needs me.
• If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be…
• 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 that either I…
• I've made records that everyone has hated and I've loved, and made records that everyone has loved and I've deemed, at best, mediocre.
• I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.
• If we base our belief systems on the humble assumption that the complexities of the world are ontologically beyond our understanding, then maybe our belief…
• The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like... Just because we invent myths and…
• I've been making electronic music for twenty some odd years but, because I grew up playing in punk rock bands, when I started touring, I…
• Maybe it's a form of overcompensation, but whenever I've toured, I've always needed a huge performance component.
• Can't do any work with a rock star; you have to go through their lawyers and their agents and their managers and you have to…
• I don't think of myself as a singer; I usually end up singing when I can't find anyone better to sing, or when I'm too…
• I like singing, but it's certainly not my strong point.
• Sometimes I love the marriage of art and commerce; I love Donna Summer; I like the Rolling Stones.
• Success usually breeds a degree of hubris.
• I remember I went to Berlin right after the Wall came down. I first went to East Berlin, and all the buildings were old and…
• 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.
• In 1992 I was doing one of my first ever tours and I was in Heathrow airport and I saw these middle-aged musicians who had…
• I realized that I don't like touring. I'll never complain about it because no one wants to hear about a relatively successful musician complain about…

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