Moby Quotes - Page 11

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• The people who get more fame, who get more money, more often than not they are miserable, insecure and on anti-depressants. It's strange that everyone keeps buying into this idea that more success is good, that more fame is good, that more money is good. Yet, we look at the people who have more success, more fame, more money and they're miserable.

  Moby

  Insecure, Ideas, People

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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 rock n' roll first started, no one took it seriously.

  Moby

  Rocks, Guitar, People

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• I think there are two types of photographers, those who want to document the world and those who want to create their own world. I am more interested in documenting the world and presenting it to people with the question attached, 'Does this make any sense to you?'

  Moby

  Thinking, Two, People

  "Destroyed: Moby". Interview With Amah-Rose McKnight-Abrams, www.dazeddigital.com. May 30, 2011.

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• We do all, myself included, we tend to hold ourselves to pretty low standards. But when it comes to judging public figures or politicians or people we've never met, we tend to hold people to very high standards, and, if we held ourselves to those standards, we'd always fall short.

  Moby

  Fall, People, Judging

  "Is Moby's Music Still Good When Its Free?". "Day to Day" with Alex Chadwick, www.npr.org. March 31, 2008.

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• You could spend every waking moment online and still only experience one-trillionth of what's out there. I find that a little overwhelming.

  Moby

  Littles, Waking, Moments

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• Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.

  Moby

  World, Spheres, Invisible

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• Who wakes up when they're worth £120million and says, 'I'm unhappy today but if only I had an extra £2million!'

  Moby

  Unhappy, Wake Up, Today

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• Why can't a democrat get fired up about protecting the environment and enacting gun control legislation just as right wing republicans get fired up about making sure that children have access to assault weapons and banning 'the Catcher in the Rye' and 'Harry Potter'?

  Moby

  Children, Gun, Assault Weapons

  "imo". moby.com. December 29, 2002.

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• Research performed on animals is, by definition, scientifically unsound.

  Moby

  Animal, Definitions, Research

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• I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good.

  Moby

  Theme, Fraud, Originals

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• I'd much rather go out and have music randomly presented to me by different DJs than stay home and discover it on my own.

  Moby

  Home, Different, My Own

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• It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences.

  Moby

  Decision, Matter, Sometimes

  “Amy Winehouse's Death: Moby Remembers Her Final Performance” by Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 25, 2011.

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• A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It's big and scary and they get lost.

  Moby

  Scary, Manhattan, Brooklyn

  "Moby Discusses His ISSUEs". Interview With Nell Alk, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2009.

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• A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music.

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  Pristine, Involved, Listeners

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• Have I dated a supermodel? Of course not. I'd look ridiculous.

  Moby

  Looks, Ridiculous, Supermodel

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• Lord, I want to be up in my heart.

  Moby

  Heart, Want, My Heart

  Song: In My Heart, Album: 18

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• People love their favorite records. And I aspire to make a record someone might be able to love in that way.

  Moby

  People, Records, Might

  "Organization Moby" by Ethan Smith, www.wired.com. May 1, 2002.

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• The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine.

  Moby

  Average, Years, Coal

  "I long for that sober connection" by Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2008.

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• Personally I find the democratic chaos of the Internet fascinating, and for the most part really benign.

  Moby

  Chaos, Internet, Benign

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• Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.

  Moby

  Bridges, Musician, Looks

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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 something as arbitrary as record sale and critical acclaim and the interests of the public. All of those things are so fickle. So my approach now to music is I want to make records that I love, and I hope that other people love them, then that's OK.

  Moby

  Years, People, Unhappy

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• There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as open as possible.

  Moby

  Trying, Figures, Behinds

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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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  Doe, World, Exposure

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

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  Song, Made, Disappointed

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• The only sort of descriptive adjective or catch phrase for my music would be 'eclectic.'

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  Eclectic Style, Would Be, Adjectives

  Interview With Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. June 2, 1999.

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