Quotes by Moby

About Moby:

Richard Melville Hall is an American singer-songwriter, musician, DJ and photographer. He is well known for his electronic music, vegan lifestyle, and support of animal rights. Moby has sold over 20 million albums worldwide. AllMusic considers him "one of the most important dance music figures of the early 1990s, helping bring the music to a mainstream audience both in the UK and in America".
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Many of my friends back in New York and elsewhere have a glib or dismissive attitude toward Los Angeles. It's a place of strip malls and traffic and not much else, in their opinion.

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The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work.

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I may be a lifelong 'downtowner,' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City.

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If you're inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L.A. a huge disservice, and you're just not looking hard enough.

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David Lynch is my friend, and I love his movies and his art and his music. Few things make me happier than working with him.

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I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.

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I feel compelled to make art that on one hand reflects and sometimes almost creates like a sense of comfort when confronted with the strangeness of the world.

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'Arbitrary' and 'odd' are the words which best describe the pattern of my career. I'm perpetually baffled by the whole thing.

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I buy things with the best of intention of living in them and then life intercedes.

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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.

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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.

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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 campaign, they somehow believe that they can sell 10 million records. That's delusional. No one sells 10 million records. The days ...

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I'm perfectly happy for my videos to be on YouTube, whether I'm getting paid for them or not. If they're on YouTube, people will see them. If for some reason my videos get taken down from YouTube, well, I apologize. If it was up to me they'd all be u...

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I think the word 'blog' is an ugly word. I just don't know why people can't use the word 'journal.'

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I wasn't raised Catholic; I just really like the image of a neutral and benign Mary floating around somewhere, being nice to people.

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Every single day the world seems like it is on the brink of falling apart. But then I look outside my window, and things look about the same as they did a week ago. It's almost a form of cognitive dissonance.

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People assume that somehow fame and wealth will keep mortality at bay.

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I still never get recognized. Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same.

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My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing.

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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 sta...

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Author Bio

  • NameMoby
  • DescriptionAmerican musician, DJ, and photographer
  • AliasesRichard Melville Hall; Voodoo Child; Barracuda; Brainstorm; Schaumgummi; Pippy Baliunas; UHF
  • BornSeptember 11, 1965
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger; Record Producer; Composer; Musician; Blogger; Entrepreneur; Disc Jockey