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Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works.
Moby
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Moby
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 11
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To truly live a creative life means that you will need to experiment in as many different fields as possible.
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I guess the most emotional part is when I have that moment when I end up writing something that I really, really love. So not only is there the emotional connection with the music that's being created, but there's also the magic of the fact that you're essentially creating something from nothing.
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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.
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I used to have a lot of envy for those musicians who have been universally loved.
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In a way I almost feel like the election of Donald Trump has inspired Democrats and progressives and punk rockers in a way that hasn't been seen since Vietnam.
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As long as the world continues to be strange and interesting, I still want to take pictures of it.
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I've been an animal rights activist and a vegan for 28 years. The entire time, I've asked myself: How do I best advance an animal rights agenda?
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A vegan who beats his wife is far further down the ethical ladder than a meat eater who's kind to his children.
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When public figures think they can open a business even though they've got no business experience, it's a bad idea.
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I'm a terrible cook, so I usually eat out with friends.
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I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance.
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I realized the universe is 15 billion years old and unspeakably complicated. I still love the teachings of Christ, but I also believe that the human condition prevents us from having any true objective knowledge and understanding of the universe.
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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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It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If you're a drummer, you just wait around for people to ask you to play drums. But if you have your own studio and can make music, you have the ability to approach music a lot differently.
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The way I work on music is that I go into my studio, and I start playing music, and I see what happens, and... I never think about it.
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The moment a career is on a quantitative downswing, your loathsomeness is sort of attenuated.
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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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What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.
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You know, if you love something, you should love it regardless of whether it costs five dollars or 500 or 5,000 dollars. Unfortunately, that's not the way our culture works, and we do collectively buy into this idea that things that are more expensive probably have more value.
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