Moby Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• Intellectually, human beings and animals may be different, but it's pretty obvious that animals have a rich emotional life and that they feel joy and pain. It's easy to forget the connection between a hamburger and the cow it came from. But I forced myself to acknowledge the fact that every time I ate a hamburger, a cow had ceased to breathe

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  Pain, Animal, Emotional

• Sometimes people will think, I need to have pre-sanctioned spiritual joy. Getting joy from my contemplative meditation practice or getting joy from reading Thich Nhat Hahn books. Those things can be joyful but I think it’s the small, simple joys of playing with dogs or having sex with someone you love or going for a walk outside, stuff that we tend to ignore.

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  Spiritual, Dog, Sex

  "Moby | Inside the brain of a genius. Meditator. Vegan. Outlaw". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• When I was growing up, albums were my closest friends, as sad as that may sound - Joy Division's 'Closer,' or Echo and the Bunnymen's 'Heaven Up Here'... I had a more intimate relationship with those records than I did with most of the people in my life.

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  Growing Up, Echoes, Intimate Relationships

• An artist in 2014 who is thinking about album sales is either sadly deluded or has to make so many commercial compromises that it sort of takes the joy out of making music.

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  Thinking, Artist, Joy

  "Exclusive Premiere of Moby’s New Video, 'The Last Day'". Interview with Jaeah Lee, www.motherjones.com. September 2, 2014.

• I love Thich Nhat Hahn. One of my favorite quotes of his (and I’m paraphrasing), he’s talking about cultivating happiness, and he was saying, at the very least, just be happy you’re not at the dentist right now. He was talking to someone who was having a really hard time finding joy.

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  Hard Times, Talking, Joy

  "Moby | Inside the brain of a genius. Meditator. Vegan. Outlaw". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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