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I don't sleep very well when I travel. And as a result, I tend to be awake in cities when everyone else is asleep.
Moby
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Moby
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 11
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My interest in gospel music and liturgical art and Biblically-inspired literature has nothing to do with organised religion and everything to do with human beings trying to figure out their place on this planet.
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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.
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I'm a weird, bald musician who makes records in his bedroom and lives in the Lower East Side.
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There are so many musicians, friends of mine, who play shows for ten people a night, or always desperately wanted a record contract. So even if every person on the planet loathes me, I have nothing to complain about. My job is not a bad job, so I can't complain.
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I love that vinyl is actually growing in popularity, and that there are so many great record stores.
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The moment that you impose your will on another person or animal, that's when we are allowed to say you have committed an ethical breach.
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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!'
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So in 1987 I gave up all animal products and became a vegan. Simply so that I could eat and live in accordance with my beliefs that animals have their own lives, that they're entitled to their own lives and that contributing to animal suffering is something that I don't want to be a part of.
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At 3 o'clock in the morning on tour when you're sober is a lot less fun than 3 a.m. when you're drunk in a bar or in a nightclub. But having said that, 9 in the morning on tour sober is immeasurably better than 9 a.m. on tour when you're hung over and feeling like death.
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If you look at the history of popular music, the most successful musicians have started out being really marginal and esoteric. The Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Madonna. Prince. Bruce Springsteen. Fleetwood Mac. David Bowie. Public Enemy. Nirvana.
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For me my biggest inspiration is trying to make music that effects me as much as the music made by my heroes.
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I was in bar about 15 years ago, a relationship had ended badly, I was very drunk and I thought I would convince myself to try and be gay. Like, at one point I didn't like coffee, then I learned to like it.
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All I want to do with my life is try and make music that I really love, and so every day I try and work on music.
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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.
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I love the idea of making records that people can use, records that have a sense of utility.
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We hope that as a species we're capable of dealing with environmental catastrophe before it actually does collectively kill most of us.
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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.
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I love lots of different types of music, but it's music that has this up-swelling of beauty and emotion that is most important to me.
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These new metal bands are going out, getting drunk and going to strip clubs, and they'll be doing the same in thirty years. There isn't even an interesting self-destructive quality to it . . . it's just dumb.
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I joined Facebook purely so I could play online Scrabble. You have eight tiles instead of seven, so you tend to have higher scores. I'm somewhere between 400 and 500.
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