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When I tour I'm going to countries to play music for people. My presence in a country is not an endorsement or a condemnation of that country's policies. My presence in a country is an effort to connect with people through playing music.
Moby
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Moby
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 11
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Over time, I started becoming more and more aware of the vastness and complexity of the universe, which led me away from any sort of conventional Christianity.
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The moment somebody becomes famous, 15 years gets knocked off their life. They're gonna get divorced a few times, they're gonna be addicted to things, they're gonna be in therapy.
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There is a long and interesting tradition of really marginal left-field music that becomes commercially successful. And I will, for a brief minute, fit into that tradition.
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I'm offended by the is-ought fallacy, which has been used to justify slavery, women not being allowed to vote, children working in factories.
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Traffic terrifies me.
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My goal with everything that I do is to present things in a way that I would want to see if I was in the audience or buying the record.
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A lot of people do talk about the demise of the album, but I still believe that if an artist tries hard to make a great album, people will buy it and listen to it as an album, rather than just a collection of random songs.
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I was raised with this idea that we're supposed to be tolerant of other people's opinions, but then what happens if other people's opinions are racist and hateful and wrong?
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There are a lot of public figures who, before they take a stand on a issue, they talk about it with their publicist and they figure out how it's going to affect record sales. Life is really too short to worry about that sort of thing.
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I'm just fascinated with the world that I can see, but I'm even more fascinated with the world that I can't see.
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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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Let peace and beauty reign.
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I'm sure most people have this experience: when you're young you drink, you do drugs, you stay up late, and there are no consequences.
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Nothing can stop us now 'cause we are all made of stars.
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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.
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The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like... Just because we invent myths and theories to explain away the chaos we're still going to live in a world that's older and more complicated than we'll ever understand.
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If we base our belief systems on the humble assumption that the complexities of the world are ontologically beyond our understanding, then maybe our belief systems will make more sense and end up causing less suffering.
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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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I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful.
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For my most of my career I've been a falling-down drunk. Most of my interviews were done hungover, and for a while it was great.
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