I've been friends with madonna for ever. In fact she was at my 3rd solo performance in 1990, and there were only 10 people in the audience. Moby More Quotes by Moby More Quotes From Moby Music is just air moving around. Moby music-isairmoving Sacha Baron Cohen is one of my heroes. Moby my-herohero I need an audience way more than an audience needs me. Moby audiencewayneeds As an American, no one expected Donald Trump to ever be a serious candidate for President. I don't think he even expected to be a serious candidate. He wanted the free media he would get. Moby mediapresidentthinking If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested. Moby musicianselfpeople In the course of my life, I've made some happy songs but it's the more sort of like pathos-laden, emotional, melancholic music that either I make or that other people make that really resonates with me. Moby emotionalsongpeople 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 mediocrerecordsmade For his sake I'm sorry that Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil, but for our sake and the sake of music I'm glad he did. Moby devilsoulsorry For example, you can go on all the pro-life chat rooms and say you're an outraged right-wing voter and that you know that George Bush drove an ex-girlfriend to an abortion clinic and paid for her to get an abortion.Then you go to an anti-immigration website chat room and ask, "What's all this about George Bush proposing amnesty for illegal aliens?" Moby pro-lifegirlfriendwings 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. Moby understandingsufferinghumble 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. Moby ontologyworldideas Musicians, actors, writers - we're all neurotic, odd people who've lucked into accidental careers. So I just don't like being around public figures with that sense of entitlement, it just seems unhealthy, and it strips so much potential for them to develop as a human being. Moby musiciancareerspeople It will be interesting to see what the long term fruits of our national apathy will be, 'cos so far they've been pretty foul. Moby apathylonginteresting If someone is cynical and doesn't vote and ends up with a crummy job in a crummy country with a decimated environment, they only have themselves to blame. Moby cynicaljobscountry People have always been resistant to change. If you go back to the 17th, 18th century, playing guitar was frowned upon. When rock n' roll first started, no one took it seriously. Moby rocksguitarpeople 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. Moby savingmusicianactors I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends. Moby smartpartyyears No one drives in Manhattan - in fact, many of the folks who live in Manhattan don't even have driving licenses! Moby manhattandrivingfacts Look not too long in the face of the fire, O man! Never dream with thy hand on the helm! Turn not thy back to the compass; accept the first hint of the hitching tiller; believe not the artificial fire, when its redness makes all things look ghastly. To-morrow, in the natural sun, the skies will be bright; those who glared like devils in the forking flames, the morn will show in far other, at least gentler, relief; the glorious, golden, glad sun, the only true lamp—all others but liars! Moby dreamliarsbelieve 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. Moby playjobsnight
