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Singer-songwriter

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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“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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“One simple word: ugh. Is something still considered a conspiracy if it's played out right under our noses?”

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“When I dj at big venues I try to play tracks that I would want to hear if I were e'd up in a field with 50,000 other people.”

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“I think it'd be great if Prince made an album of just romantic, slow ballads.”

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“If I had to label myself now, I'd call myself a Taoist-Christian-agnostic quantum mechanic.”

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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.”

Ifs Way Want Goal Audience Records Buying

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“If someone writes a nice review of my record, I feel like I should take them out to dinner or go over and clean their apartment.”

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“If I found myself married with children and had tons of puppies and a fun place to live, I imagine I'd be happier, but I kind of like being a little bit isolated and lonely.”

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“I feel like the vast majority of the world's problems would disappear if suddenly everyone on the planet were relatively self-aware and capable of honest self-love and compassion.”

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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.”

Ifs Feels Writing Pressure Come Up Worried

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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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“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.”

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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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“To quote Homer Simpson, alcohol is the cause and solution to all of life's problems. I don't think there's anything wrong with drinking and drug use, if people can do it and not hurt themselves. But it got to the point where I was really hurting myself.”

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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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“There's really no reason for any musician, writer, actor to ever take themselves seriously. If you work in a needle exchange, take yourself seriously. You're doing good work. If you're involved in hostage negotiations and saving lives, you can have a sense of entitlement.”

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“There's not a lot of precedent for weird, bald musicians in the Lower East Side making records in their bedrooms and going on to sell a lot of copies of the record. Especially if you look at the pop climate.”

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“If I'm walking down the street and someone stops me and says, "Oh! A song that you wrote meant a lot to me, and I listened to it after I went to my sister's funeral," that's when it hits me.”

Ifs Song Streets Walking Funeral My Sister

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“There are certain songs that if people come up to me and tell me how much that song meant to them, I think, You should have better taste, then, because I don't really like that song.”

People Ifs Thinking Should Certain Song Taste Should Have Come Up

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“The young have to kill the old. The young, if they want to achieve their own platform, have to diminish the reputations of the ones that have gone before. That's how life works.”

Ifs Want Young Gone Achieve Reputation Platforms Diminish

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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.”

Ifs Looks Enemy Successful Musician Stones Being Real Rolling Macs Rolling Stones Esoteric Bowie Popular Music Springsteen Public Enemies Fleetwood Mac

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“The solution probably doesn't look like the problem. If we have this propensity to worry, to be anxious, to be depressed, to be angry - focusing on the worry, anxiety, depression, and anger? Probably not gonna be the solution.”

Ifs Looks Problem Worry Anxiety Solutions Angry Anxious Propensity Anxiety Depression

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“To paraphrase Paul from the New Testament, he has a great soliloquy about love, where he's basically saying, if I've figured out the secrets of the universe but I don't have love, figuring out the secrets of universe means nothing.”

Ifs Mean Universe Secret Testament New Testament Paraphrase

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“For me the most important issue is climate change because it in some ways trumps every other issue. Everything else we care about falls by the wayside if the Greenland ice shelf falls into the sea. And if suddenly sea levels rise 21 feet, everything we hold near and dear ceases to exist.”

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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?”

People Ifs Ideas Happens Opinion Raised Supposed To Be Racist Hateful

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“I feel like sometimes we have to be a little less inclusive and tolerant if other people's opinions could lead to the destruction of our species.”

People Ifs Feels Littles Sometimes Opinion Destruction Species

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“If you look at the history of demagoguery and fascism, it always happens when there are two things. It requires a gentle populace to allow it to happen, whether through laziness, ignorance or ineptitude, but it also requires a very angry, dissatisfied section of the populace who want egregiously simple answers to very complicated problems.”

Ifs Want Looks Two Problem Happens Simple Answers Ignorance Angry Complicated Gentle Two Things Fascism Laziness Sections Dissatisfied Demagoguery Ineptitude

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“It's the age old thing: If you want to get elected, blame immigrants. It worked in the 20th century and it works now, and it's heart-breaking to see people make the same mistakes. They're looking at a complicated world, but they just keep blaming immigrants, and it's really disturbing that people haven't got past that.”

People Ifs World Want Heart Age Past Mistake Century Havens Blame Complicated Immigrants 20th Century Disturbing Same Mistakes Old Things Heart Breaking Complicated World

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“Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book.”

Ifs Book Hard Home Call Me Nerd Good Book Laptops

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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.”

Ifs Children Parent Imagine Subjects Favorite Child

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“If I was a sex symbol, I would be getting laid a lot more than I am now.”

Ifs Would Be Sex Symbols Getting Laid Sex Symbol

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“If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives.”

Ifs World Evil Republican True Evil

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“If you look at someone like Joe Strummer or John Lennon, when you heard their music you knew that they wrote it and they cared about it.”

Ifs Looks Heard Lennon

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“There is nothing terribly wrong with my face, even if some of its parts aren't very inspiring.”

Ifs Faces Very Inspiring

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“Who wakes up when they're worth £120million and says, 'I'm unhappy today but if only I had an extra £2million!'”

Ifs Today Wake Up Unhappy Extras Pounds

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“We do all, myself included, we tend to hold ourselves to pretty low standards. But when it comes to judging public figures or politicians or people we've never met, we tend to hold people to very high standards, and, if we held ourselves to those standards, we'd always fall short.”

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“If Nirvana had remained a small, underground punk rock band, Kurt Cobain would still be alive. And he'd probably be living in Seattle, getting kind of fat and balding, be relatively happy and producing records for other people.”

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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.”

People Ifs Trying Believe Stills Hard Artist Song Albums Collections Demise I Still Believe

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“I feel like once the song is done, you put it out there and if people want to do bizarre remixes, if people want to make strange videos, great. You know, like chaos theory applied to the music business.”

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“I'll look through 'Us Weekly' and I'll see a picture of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Anniston. And I'm like, 'Wow, they just... they look so good. Even if they're like just wearing jeans and a t-shirt, they still look great.'”

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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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“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.”

Ifs Want Asks Hero Paid Details My Hero

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“If you and I become vegans, the global consequences aren't going to be that much. But if we can get a few hundred million people to become a little more aware and cut back on their animal consumption, the consequences will be great.”

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“If you make a record, you should ask yourself, 'Did it make someone cry, in a good way, not a bad way?' There should almost be subjective emotional criteria for evaluating work, instead of just profitability.”

Ifs Way Should Asks Records Cry Emotional Subjective Criteria Good Way Profitability

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“If you're inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L.A. a huge disservice, and you're just not looking hard enough.”

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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.”

People Ifs Play Asks Waiting Ability Careers Easier Approach Musician Studios Drummer Playing Drums

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“New York is such a competitive place; it tears people apart. People come here and, if they can't make it in the first month, they get torn apart and they have to go back to where they came from. I don't think that's terribly healthy.”

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“One of the reasons why fundamentalists are so aggressive in trying to promote fundamentalism is because deep down they know it's arbitrary. If you're comfortable with your belief you don't need to convince other people to agree with you.”

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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.”

Ifs Knows Way Should Ideas Values Culture Five Cost Dollars Expensive

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“If you don't want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed ot tortured, then you shouldn't condone such behaviour towards anyone, be they human or not.”

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About the Author

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

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