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The aggressive, energised, political, or even politicised, culturally aware music hasn't really existed [recently].
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Moby
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 11
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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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My secret is being not terrible at a lot of things.
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When I was a drunk, New York was the greatest place in the world. You walk everywhere, everything is open until four in the morning, and people go to New York looking for debauchery.
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I don't think of myself as a singer I usually end up singing when I can't find anyone better to sing, or when I'm too lazy to find someone better.
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When playing big festivals, I tend to play big, over the top techno tracks, like hands in the air songs that make sense being played in front of 30,000 people. I steer away from subtlety in the interests of big bombastic dance music.
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Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and vegetarian-friendly restaurants.
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I love the fact that no one's ever bought my record because they were enamoured of the way I look. Maybe one person. There must be someone out there with compromised taste.
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As music became more profitable in the 1990s, it seemed like it attracted a lot of people who were just interested in the financial aspect of it, which is depressing.
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My goal is to make one-not a hodgepodge, but just the sort of record that I would want to listen to.
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For me to speak out against the war in Iraq, you know - most of my fans are lefties anyway, so I don't really get much flack for it.
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I think the ideal job in that alternative universe would be to lead whitewater rafting trips through the Grand Canyon. So maybe I'd be a guy leading whitewater rafting trips at the Grand Canyon. Or maybe a professional skydiver.
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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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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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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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You can sit down with Reason or Ableton and literally in a couple of hours make a very good-sounding record. But then a lot of people become contented with that, rather than pushing themselves to making something that sounds great.
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One problem with a lot of musicians is that they remove themselves in a studio and make a record and assume people are going to pay attention to it just because they've made it.
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Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach.
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I don't have children, but I imagine if parents are really pushed on the subject, they probably have favorite children.
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I found it incredibly disheartening that in the late '90s, suddenly pop culture became even more misogynistic and more homophobic, and so I criticized Eminem for having lyrics that were egregiously homophobic and egregiously misogynistic.
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The truth is that genetics has robbed me of hair. But it's not interesting to blame genetics.
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