Moby Quotes

I used to make albums because I wasn't touring, and so I thought, "This is the best way for people to find out about me.

You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way.

You can always boil down the life of a musician to touring, playing, and writing.

I enjoy touring. I enjoy recording the music, I enjoy dreaming it and I enjoy performing it. I also definitely enjoy selling it, because I like to eat.

I always wanted the world to hear my music, but I didn't know how I was gonna go about it.

If you can go out with your live show and turn people on to that, where you have that fan base that's religious and they're going to come see you when you're in that town, once your radio success is gone and you're not a mainstream guy anymore you can still go out and play your shows.

I'm just going to tour; that's the best way for people to get to know me. Focusing on the international stuff and breaking in to the States and U.K.

Ed Sheeran is a good mate of mine, and he just flies around the place doing every single bit of promo or gig or interview, and it's no wonder that when you combine that with immense talent that he's playing in stadiums and arenas around the world.

No. 1, I'm a songwriter, and I don't really get out and tour.

Distributing the music is so easy it's moot. So now the delicate art of calling attention to your music means everything. Marketing is distribution.

There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes.

All these interviews I'm doing - this is the kind of stuff that I was dreaming about doing when I was younger. I was praying for people to want to write about me. I wanted people to hear my music. I wanted to perform. I wanted to be on billboards.

I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.

I've never understood musicians who don't enjoy doing promotional interviews. I just can't believe it. I always think, 'Your life must have been so brilliant before you were in a band.'

Now I get exposure first with people directly in the clubs. This is a unique situation for me.

What people are feeling is the similarity in what I do and how I'm capable of breaking a new artist into a competitive field. People can't wrap their head around the fact that Gaga did not do that on her own. She didn't. There was a Laurieann Gibson.

If you really want a radio station to play your song, go to that radio station every day with that song in your hand and say, 'Please play it.'

Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it... and the minute it takes off, I'm not gonna be home for a while.

I've made my records and I've done all the interviews. I've done lots of long tours. I've made stupid videos. I've done all that stuff and learned all the lingo and gone to radio stations and shmoozed with DJs on the air and met retail people.

I can't immediately get all this coverage when my record comes out. The way I sell gold and platinum records is by being on the road.

There's a big difference between doing the odd gig and actually having a record out and your name being on the ticket.

I do a lot of touring, yes, and I have my whole life ever since I was 19 years old, when I used to tour with Al Jarreau, Rickie Lee Jones, and Jackson Browne as a side musician.

I find a lot of up-and-coming musicians I enjoy, present them to my viewers - and hopefully inflate the growth of these artists by putting them in front an audience that wouldn't have been aware of them.

In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.

Traditionally, tours were a means of promoting a record. Today, the record promotes the tour.