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Moby Quotes

For years, my mom dated a man who was really active in the Baptist church in the town next to the town I grew up in, and so he used to drag me to these Baptist church services that lasted forever. I remember that I didn’t like the church services, but I really liked the music Picture Quote #1

I can’t think of any musician or producer who has influenced me more than Brian Eno. From when he was in Roxy Music, producing Devo, the Talking Heads and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts Picture Quote #1

I love to be busy. I’m envious of people who are able to take their spare time and relax. All I like to do is work. Perhaps it’s lingering Calvinist guilt? Picture Quote #1

I made a record in 1996 called ‘Animal Rights’ that was a very difficult, very dark punk-rock record. Of all the records I’ve made, it’s my favorite one. It’s also the one that got the worst reviews and sold the worst Picture Quote #1

I won’t complain about touring, because I really do believe that a public-figure musician complaining about being a public-figure musician is just absurd. Like, ‘Boo hoo hoo! I have to stand on stage and people pay attention to me!’ Picture Quote #1

I’ll look through ‘Us Weekly’ and I’ll see a picture of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Anniston. And I’m like, ‘Wow, they just... they look so good. Even if they’re like just wearing jeans and a t-shirt, they still look great.’ Picture Quote #1

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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 up there and they’d all be free Picture Quote #1

I’ve worked with all sorts of random people - everybody from Metallica to Britney Spears to Ozzy Osbourne to Michael Jackson to the Beastie Boys. I’ve got a really strange CV. It’s interesting - I work with a lot of these disparate, different people to learn what it’s like to work with random people Picture Quote #1

If one of my heroes comes to me and says, ‘Do you want to work on something?’ I just say, ‘Yes.’ I don’t ask for details; I don’t expect to get paid anything. I just love working with my heroes Picture Quote #1

In some of the greatest recordings ever made, the performance is a part of the recording. Dylan’s ‘Rainy Day Women No. 12 and 35’ is all about the esthetic of that performance. You can hear the room Picture Quote #1

In the long, nonillustrious history of white people pilfering African American culture, have I just perpetrated that? I’m motivated by a love for the music and by a love of the performances, and I really hope I haven’t done anything bad Picture Quote #1

It seems so antithetical to the teachings of Christ to proclaim your faith in public. I mean, of course you’re not supposed to hide your light under a bushel Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

NASA is an utterly fascinating place, and the fact that the buildings look so anonymous almost makes it more fascinating. You walk by a generic office-park-looking building, and you have no idea what’s going on inside Picture Quote #1

New York is such a competitive place; it tears people apart. People come here and, if they can’t make it in the first month, they get torn apart and they have to go back to where they came from. I don’t think that’s terribly healthy Picture Quote #1

The good thing about not being drop-dead gorgeous is that as time passes, I don’t have much to worry about. I have friends who are actors and every day they look in the mirror with trepidation Picture Quote #1

The term ‘renaissance man’ is always bandied about. I don’t think that applies to me. You think about Leonardo da Vinci, and he was a painter and a physicist and an architect, and that is a true renaissance man Picture Quote #1

There might be a lot of difference between Republicans and Democrats on key social issues like women’s rights and health care. But when it comes to taking corporate cash, they’re pretty much the same beast Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

When you say ‘failure,’ that seems really dramatic, but a lot of failure is just really depressing and mundane. I remember the first time I ever played a concert in Italy. I played a venue that held 900 people, and I think five people showed up. It wasn’t a big, ‘John Carter of Mars’ type failure. It wasn’t dramatic; it was just depressing Picture Quote #1

We need to finally accept that all sentient creatures are deserving of basic rights. I define basic rights as this -the ability to pursue life without having someone else’s will involuntarily forced upon you Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Factory-farm lobbyists are so powerful and so well funded and they do everything in their power to hide the truth about farming. They keep the farms and slaughterhouses in places that most people never visit; they execute huge marketing campaigns in an effort to make animal production look like a happy, nice, benign institution Picture Quote #1

If the entire world decided to become vegan tomorrow, a whole host of the world’s problems would disappear overnight. Climate change would decrease by 25 percent, deforestation would cease, rainforests would be preserved, our water- and air-quality would increase, life-expectancy rates would increase, and our rates of cancer would plummet, so certainly, with that one action of becoming vegan you are quite effectively making the world a better place Picture Quote #1

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My reason for becoming a vegetarian was simple: I loved (and love) animals Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Unfortunately I’m still straight. But who knows, life is complicated and maybe I’ll wake up gay tomorrow! Here’s hoping. And congratulations to everyone who lives in a place where they can marry the person they love, regardless of gender! Picture Quote #1

There’s an aesthetic theme, which is cities at two o’clock in the morning. Not cities packed with people going out to clubs and dancing but desolate, empty streets. It’s off-putting but there’s a strange comfort to it as well, that desolate urban environment Picture Quote #1

When I was growing up, I fetishised New York City. It was the land of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, it was where Leonard Cohen wrote ‘Chelsea Hotel’, it was CBGBs and all the punk rock clubs. Artists and musicians lived there, and it was cheap and dangerous Picture Quote #1

You can’t find an uglier urban environment than the centre of Hollywood, but then you go to Griffith Park, you go to the beach, you go to the mountains, and it’s rural. I live up in the Hollywood Hills and I have frogs, owls, coyotes, mountain lions - but I’m ten minutes from the centre of the city Picture Quote #1

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For years, my mom dated a man who was really active in the Baptist church in the town next to the town I grew up in, and so he used to drag me to these Baptist church services that lasted forever. I remember that I didn’t like the church services, but I really liked the music (Moby Quotes) I can’t think of any musician or producer who has influenced me more than Brian Eno. From when he was in Roxy Music, producing Devo, the Talking Heads and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (Moby Quotes) I love to be busy. I’m envious of people who are able to take their spare time and relax. All I like to do is work. Perhaps it’s lingering Calvinist guilt? (Moby Quotes) I made a record in 1996 called ‘Animal Rights’ that was a very difficult, very dark punk-rock record. Of all the records I’ve made, it’s my favorite one. It’s also the one that got the worst reviews and sold the worst (Moby Quotes) I won’t complain about touring, because I really do believe that a public-figure musician complaining about being a public-figure musician is just absurd. Like, ‘Boo hoo hoo! I have to stand on stage and people pay attention to me!’ (Moby Quotes) I’ll look through ‘Us Weekly’ and I’ll see a picture of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Anniston. And I’m like, ‘Wow, they just... they look so good. Even if they’re like just wearing jeans and a t-shirt, they still look great.’ (Moby Quotes) 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 up there and they’d all be free (Moby Quotes) I’ve worked with all sorts of random people - everybody from Metallica to Britney Spears to Ozzy Osbourne to Michael Jackson to the Beastie Boys. I’ve got a really strange CV. It’s interesting - I work with a lot of these disparate, different people to learn what it’s like to work with random people (Moby Quotes) If one of my heroes comes to me and says, ‘Do you want to work on something?’ I just say, ‘Yes.’ I don’t ask for details; I don’t expect to get paid anything. I just love working with my heroes (Moby Quotes) In some of the greatest recordings ever made, the performance is a part of the recording. Dylan’s ‘Rainy Day Women No. 12 and 35’ is all about the esthetic of that performance. You can hear the room (Moby Quotes) In the long, nonillustrious history of white people pilfering African American culture, have I just perpetrated that? I’m motivated by a love for the music and by a love of the performances, and I really hope I haven’t done anything bad (Moby Quotes) It seems so antithetical to the teachings of Christ to proclaim your faith in public. I mean, of course you’re not supposed to hide your light under a bushel (Moby Quotes) 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 (Moby Quotes) NASA is an utterly fascinating place, and the fact that the buildings look so anonymous almost makes it more fascinating. You walk by a generic office-park-looking building, and you have no idea what’s going on inside (Moby Quotes) New York is such a competitive place; it tears people apart. People come here and, if they can’t make it in the first month, they get torn apart and they have to go back to where they came from. I don’t think that’s terribly healthy (Moby Quotes) The good thing about not being drop-dead gorgeous is that as time passes, I don’t have much to worry about. I have friends who are actors and every day they look in the mirror with trepidation (Moby Quotes) The term ‘renaissance man’ is always bandied about. I don’t think that applies to me. You think about Leonardo da Vinci, and he was a painter and a physicist and an architect, and that is a true renaissance man (Moby Quotes) There might be a lot of difference between Republicans and Democrats on key social issues like women’s rights and health care. But when it comes to taking corporate cash, they’re pretty much the same beast (Moby Quotes) 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 (Moby Quotes) When you say ‘failure,’ that seems really dramatic, but a lot of failure is just really depressing and mundane. I remember the first time I ever played a concert in Italy. I played a venue that held 900 people, and I think five people showed up. It wasn’t a big, ‘John Carter of Mars’ type failure. It wasn’t dramatic; it was just depressing (Moby Quotes) We need to finally accept that all sentient creatures are deserving of basic rights. I define basic rights as this -the ability to pursue life without having someone else’s will involuntarily forced upon you (Moby Quotes) 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 (Moby Quotes) Factory-farm lobbyists are so powerful and so well funded and they do everything in their power to hide the truth about farming. They keep the farms and slaughterhouses in places that most people never visit; they execute huge marketing campaigns in an effort to make animal production look like a happy, nice, benign institution (Moby Quotes) If the entire world decided to become vegan tomorrow, a whole host of the world’s problems would disappear overnight. Climate change would decrease by 25 percent, deforestation would cease, rainforests would be preserved, our water- and air-quality would increase, life-expectancy rates would increase, and our rates of cancer would plummet, so certainly, with that one action of becoming vegan you are quite effectively making the world a better place (Moby Quotes) My reason for becoming a vegetarian was simple: I loved (and love) animals (Moby Quotes) 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 Quotes) Unfortunately I’m still straight. But who knows, life is complicated and maybe I’ll wake up gay tomorrow! Here’s hoping. And congratulations to everyone who lives in a place where they can marry the person they love, regardless of gender! (Moby Quotes) There’s an aesthetic theme, which is cities at two o’clock in the morning. Not cities packed with people going out to clubs and dancing but desolate, empty streets. It’s off-putting but there’s a strange comfort to it as well, that desolate urban environment (Moby Quotes) When I was growing up, I fetishised New York City. It was the land of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, it was where Leonard Cohen wrote ‘Chelsea Hotel’, it was CBGBs and all the punk rock clubs. Artists and musicians lived there, and it was cheap and dangerous (Moby Quotes) You can’t find an uglier urban environment than the centre of Hollywood, but then you go to Griffith Park, you go to the beach, you go to the mountains, and it’s rural. I live up in the Hollywood Hills and I have frogs, owls, coyotes, mountain lions - but I’m ten minutes from the centre of the city (Moby Quotes)

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