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Moby

American Musician

Born: Sep 11, 1965

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I love going on tour and playing music for people. Moby

Love Music People Tour Going Playing

But at the same time, I don't let myself regret things to the point that I'm paralyzed. Moby

Time Myself Regret Paralyzed Point Same Same Time Things

But on a utilitarian level, I realize that to try to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number of people, sometimes we have to become salesmen for what we believe, and part of being a salesman is being effective. Moby

Good People Sometimes Try Become Believe Part Greatest Accomplish Greatest Number Salesman Effective Being Realize Utilitarian Level Number

I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult. Moby

Food Food Stamps Adult Until Became Stamps

I've worked with all sorts of random people - everybody from Metallica to Britney Spears to Ozzy Osbourne to Michael Jackson to the Beastie Boys. I've got a really strange CV. It's interesting - I work with a lot of these disparate, different people to learn what it's like to work with random people. Moby

Work Strange People Random Britney Everybody Britney Spears Like Learn Sort Boy Got Metallica Lot Michael Michael Jackson Jackson Different Ozzy Interesting Worked Really Different People Spears Disparate

In the long, nonillustrious history of white people pilfering African American culture, have I just perpetrated that? I'm motivated by a love for the music and by a love of the performances, and I really hope I haven't done anything bad. Moby

Love Hope Music History Culture People Long White Bad Performance Motivated American Done Just American Culture African African-American Anything Really

In some of the greatest recordings ever made, the performance is a part of the recording. Dylan's 'Rainy Day Women No. 12 and 35' is all about the esthetic of that performance. You can hear the room. Moby

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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. Moby

You Yourself Architecture Looking Enough Disservice Unrelenting Generic Doing Huge Just Place Then Dismiss Hard Inclined

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. Moby

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I won't complain about touring, because I really do believe that a public-figure musician complaining about being a public-figure musician is just absurd. Like, 'Boo hoo hoo! I have to stand on stage and people pay attention to me!' Moby

My mother and I were on welfare and food stamps until I was 18, so I've always had this ethos of, like, 'try and make a little bit of money now because you don't know what's going to happen tomorrow.' Moby

Food You Money Welfare Mother Try Tomorrow Bit Food Stamps Had Like Know Until Make Because Always Were Going Happen Little Little Bit Stamps Ethos Now

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. Moby

Myself People Met Fall Politicians Those Ourselves High Pretty High Standards Tend Never Judging Always Very Short Hold Public Low Public Figures Held Standards Figures Included

For me, New York still ranks as the most beautiful and the most interesting city in the world. It is also the most varied in terms of the things it has to offer. Moby

Beautiful Me World Most Beautiful Ranks City Varied New Most Terms Also Still Offer York New York Interesting Things

Sacha Baron Cohen is one of my heroes. Moby

Heroes

I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive. Moby

Art Rather Naive Go Moby Than Much Show Painfully

I've made records that everyone has hated and I've loved, and made records that everyone has loved and I've deemed, at best, mediocre. Moby

Best Made Everyone Hated Records Loved Deemed Mediocre

I wish I could sing. I don't technically have a terrible voice, but it's certainly not as good as most of my friends. Whenever I hear myself on a record, it just reminds me I'm not a very good singer. Moby

Myself Good Me Technically Wish Record Voice Could Reminds Most Sing Singer Terrible Hear Friends Very Just Whenever Certainly

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. Moby

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