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Moby, born Richard Melville Hall, is an American singer-songwriter and music producer known for his innovative contributions to the electronic music genre. His music blends various styles, including electronic, rock, jazz, and classical. Moby's work has had a profound impact on both the music industry and popular culture.

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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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“When someone comes to me and says the music I've made has affected them emotionally, that's the most gratifying part of my job.”

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“The main thing that excites me and makes me want to get out of bed is the thought of being able to go into my studio to work on music.”

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“I've been making music for thirty-six years and, you know, I'm still just as in love with working on music now as I was thirty-six years ago.”

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“The most emotional part is when I go into my studio every day and pretty much never have an idea of what's gonna happen.”

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“I don't put a lot of pressure on myself when I'm writing. It feels like if I come up with something good, or I come up with something bad, I'm not too worried.”

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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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“Honestly, the most vulnerable part of my life is probably just honest expression, as cliché as that might sound.”

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“I think that, for a lot of us, the closer we get to showing people who we really are, that's where we feel the most uncomfortable, the most vulnerable. But it's also where the healthiest growth comes from. Like when I can really open myself up to someone and show someone who I really am, it's amazing when it happens.”

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“Oftentimes things that seem really difficult and traumatic in the short term seem a lot less difficult and traumatic in the long term.”

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“I remind myself that the universe is 15 billion years old, and I'm only 46 years old, so my perspective is sort of limited and fear-based and skewed. So I sort of turn things over to whatever you want to call it - whether it's God, or the universe or the spirit of the universe - and I just sort of turn things over to God and hope that this spirit that has been around for 15 billion years will have a better understanding of how things should be than I do.”

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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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“I don't think too much about how it might exist in the world in a commercial sense - I more just try and focus on making music that I love and trying to put it out into the world.”

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“There was a time when I was way too reliant upon other people's opinions and perspective of me. And I guess over time came to see how unhealthy that was. I mean it's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers.”

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“I just have to remind myself that my daily quotidie in life has almost nothing to do with any aspect of my professional life as a public figure. And I think a lot of people get to that point - specifically, sort of getting comfortable looking out for yourself and taking care of yourself and defining yourself based on healthier criteria, and not criteria that's established by complete strangers that you've never met.”

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“I have to say that being a vegan in 1986 or whenever was a lot different than being a vegan in 2012. You'd go to health foods stores and basically your choice was between Mung beans and nutritional yeast, and that's about it.”

Different Choices Stores Vegan Beans Health Food Yeast

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“I guess...on one hand, I spent way too much time watching science fiction and reading science fiction when I was growing up. But a part of it is I also never felt much of a connection to the world in which I lived while I was growing up, and so, oddly enough, I think I felt a lot more connected to the worlds that I read about in science fiction.”

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“Since I was really little, I've just always had an obsession with, not just science fiction, but science and space. And also because as time passes and the more advanced science becomes, the more interesting it becomes.”

Littles Space Interesting Fiction Science Fiction Obsession Time Passes

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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.”

World I Can Fascinated

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“I think that growing up very poor in a very wealthy town gave me a sense of being an outsider, and I hated it when I was growing up.”

Thinking Poor Growing Up Growing Towns Hated Wealthy Outsiders

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“When I was growing up, all I wanted to do was fit in, but if you're perpetually an outsider, it gives you a perspective that might have a little more objectivity than people who really feel connected to their social environment in which they grow up.”

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“Because we find somethings distasteful is not justification enough for us to deem them criminal.”

Enough Criminals Justification Distasteful

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“Lord, I want to be up in my heart.”

Want Heart Lord My Heart

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“I've been having a midlife crisis since I was four years old.”

Years Four Crisis Four Years Midlife Midlife Crisis

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“The midlife crisis you're having at 30 is indulgent, but the midlife crisis you have at 45 is to an extent thrust upon you.”

Crisis Thrust Midlife Midlife Crisis

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“I have no perspective as regards my work. One reason I put out records and books is people respond to it, and it enables you to actually see the work more clearly. It's a form of therapy for me. Sometimes abusive therapy.”

People Book Sometimes Reason Form Records Perspective Regard Therapy Abusive

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“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.”

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“God has taken his chosen people, the problem being you are the only non-chosen person.”

People Persons Problem Taken Chosen

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“God took his chosen people and we are what's left. He looked at what's left and thought: I could kill you all, but let's see what happens. A little social experiment.”

People Littles Happens Left Social Experiments Chosen

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“When I was growing up I was an atheist, then an agnostic, and then I had a good eight or ten years of being quite a serious Christian.”

Years Christian Growing Up Growing Serious Ten Atheist Eight Agnostic

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“I taught Bible Study, and there was period where I thought all of my beliefs were right, and everybody who disagreed with me was wrong.”

Belief Study Taught Periods Bible Study

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“I change my mind about things - for a while I was punk rocker, and if you weren't a punk rocker you were an apostate. Then I was a dance music enthusiast, and if you weren't a dance music enthusiast, you were an apostate. I was carnivore, and if you were a vegan, I didn't want to talk to you. Then I was vegan, and if you were a carnivore I didn't want to talk to you.”

Ifs Want Mind Vegan Punk Punk Rock Dance Music Rockers Carnivores

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“Over time I just realised the world is a very complicated place, and there is not a single structured belief system that adequately and comprehensively describes every aspect of our existence. So that is my new approach to life and spirituality - I don't know anything, except on a very naive and subjective level.”

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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.”

Trying Humans Art Literature Interest Human Beings Figures Planets Inspired Organised Gospel Music Organised Religion

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“When I listen to gospel singers pouring their heart out to God, it's the act of pouring their hearts out that interests me.”

Heart Interest Singers Pouring

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“I'm not Catholic but the Virgin Mary fascinates me because she's like a folk hero.”

Hero Catholic Folks Mary Virgins Virgin Mary

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“Whether the Virgin Mary existed, I don't know. But the human need for her to appear in tortilla, that's what inspires my interest.”

Knows Needs Humans Interest Inspire Mary Virgins Human Needs Virgin Mary Tortillas

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“When you're signed to a big label you're always in the position of convincing them, especially now because labels are barely keeping the lights on, so getting them to spend a little bit of money is really hard.”

Littles Hard Bigs Light Bits Position Little Bit Labels Convincing

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“I sort of use as my guiding principle that show The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. Whenever possible, do the stupid thing.”

Use Shows Fall Principles Stupid Stupid Things Guiding Principles

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“The demise of the monolithic record industry has been, for a lot of people, really liberating and emancipating.”

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“If I were to be really petulant, I would say New York is the one doing the betraying. Because the New York I fell in love with doesn't really exist anymore.”

Ifs New York Betray

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“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.”

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“I find London really exciting but there's a lot of vicious success here. Like New York, there's a lot of incredibly successful people who feel incredibly entitled, perhaps justifiably, but I don't want to be around viciously entitled people.”

People Want Feels Successful New York Exciting London Successful People Entitled Vicious

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“I'd rather be around broken people who have a degree of humility, and just get on with their work.”

People Humility Broken Degrees

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“LA is such a crumbling mess of a city. Basically in all my years of travelling, I haven't found another city in the western world that interest me as much as Los Angeles - which might sound like heresy, but most cities, history has already happened and the people living there are sort of living on the bones of the thousand years of history that's already happened there. Whereas LA is always reinventing itself.”

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“There is a dysfunctional strangeness to Los Angeles that doesn't exist in any other western city. The roads are crumbling, no-one knows what they're doing, the city government barely works.”

Knows Government Cities Western Los Angeles Strangeness Crumbling City Government

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“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.”

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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.”

People World Walks Morning Four New York Drunk Places In The World Debauchery

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“I stopped drinking and realised New York still has a lot of charm, but it has become so bourgeois and affluent - and I can't really complain because I'm sort of bourgeois and affluent myself, but I like living in a place where artists and musicians and writers can actually pay the rent.”

Stills I Can Artist Pay New York Musician Drinking Complaining Charm Realised Bourgeois Affluent

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“I like to quote Homer Simpson: 'I'm like a chocoholic except for alcohol.' I come from a long line of alcoholics. It's funny because when I first started making records, I was at the tail end of a period of sobriety, so I somehow got this reputation as Captain Sober.”

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About the Author

Born: September 11, 1965
Known for: Singer-songwriter
Quotes: 453

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