Moby Quotes

My brother makes beats, and I DJ.

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

I'm always going to do that - record and make music.

Remixes come very quickly, because you already have the melody and the vocals. I have a great passion for music, so it doesn't matter to me if it's a remix or an original production. I don't think about it as, 'Well, I have to spend three hours on a remix or I have to do something all original.'

If I wake up in the middle of the night and have an idea, I want to go to my computer and be able to do it. So I hired someone at Guitar Center to come over to my house and teach me Logic music program, and I learned it over a couple months.

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

I'm always trying to think of something clever and fun to do with the music. There's so many cool things musicians and artists can do with their products.

I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.

I played more of an advisory role with Public Enemy. I really trusted them to make the music that they wanted to make, and the way The Bomb Squad worked with the... they created their whole own world of music.

My son is a hip-hop producer.

I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.

Whenever I have time, I try to get in the studio and write, whether it's for me or other artists or my catalog of music. It's definitely one of my favorite parts of the music industry.

It's not the music you hear in your head that other people are going to hear. You have to be able to make it true enough to the image in your head, and that's where technique and technology come in, for sure, and knowledge. It's not true and will never be true that someone who knows nothing can sit in a basement and make great music.

DJs are in incredible competition, musically. And they are the most musically creative and sensitive people in all the music charts. I am amazed how they are.

The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.

Music is just a really fun hobby that I do, because I'm actually really good about writing songs and producing. People don't realize this, but I am an excellent writer for artists.

I want to produce the best popular music I can.

I've always loved music and loved recording.

I grew up seeing my sister in the studio. I would go to recording sessions and take notes.

If you go in RCA A, you'll realize that it's not just a Nashville thing. It's a studio that belongs to music.

I was someone who knew what they wanted to do for so long. I was always fascinated by music, always a student of pop.

It is quite normal these days to record a song in the absence of the composer.

As a songwriter, I listen to everything to be inspired... from Rihanna to Bruno Mars to Springsteen to Johnny Cash.

Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.