Moby Quotes

When you try to put everything into music, there's no room left to try to make you think we're cool. We know you think we're cool.

Music does have a very special place in my heart. I enjoy it very much. I suppose it is my first love and I do a lot of it. It seems to be when you are making a project it inspires you sometimes to jot down something that you think fits the situation.

When I got my first loft, I still didn't know what I was going to paint... There were long stretches when I just sat there and thought without interruption.

If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.

The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.

It's not in the interest of the artist to think of his market.

I look at building business as a creative process that I enjoy.

I've always been a fan of just writing songs and making music.

But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.

Forget 'branding' and 'positioning.' Once you understand customer behavior, everything else falls into place.

I'm a believer that you shouldn't really talk about the drawing until you're done with the drawing.

If you really stay focused on what your beliefs are and what your customer wants, you'll find the right markets.

You can always change your branding or hire lawyers, but it's critical that you figure out if you have product market fit, and if you don't, figure out how to course-correct without getting stuck.

We write when the time comes, and we try to be exciting, and stuff that excites us usually makes the record.

When I try and extract what it is about my music that I do or love or try to create, I'm never aware of it at the time. I just make something.

I love to think about business. It's what makes me happy.

It's not like somewhere along the way I decided to be a total formalist in terms of music and to not care about content; the content is going to be there whether I try to make it be there or not, and I can have fun and see what happens.

We really just try not to think about the scrutiny and the pressure. We're just trying to make the show that we like, and we're working really hard at it.

You can't really just think, "Oh, I want to make something that is going to appeal to every single person in the world." You have to just try to make a movie that comes from your heart.

I think that some of the best Crowes stuff we did had that spontaneous vibe. Thats something thats always interested me in music. Im not really the kind of person to get too bogged down in the details. I think that takes away from the emotion and the vibe of what youre doing.

Interestingly, when you do films, sometimes you have conscious reasons, things that you were looking for, or stuff that you were trying to do. And then, you see the film and you think, "Wow, it ended up being something totally different!"

Everybody wants to feel that you're writing to a certain demographic because that's good business, but I've never done that ... I tried to write stories that would interest me. I'd say, what would I like to read?... I don't think you can do your best work if you're writing for somebody else, because you never know what that somebody else really thinks or wants.

I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .

I think every time you take on a new role, you're trying to help find that voice and you add your own bits and pieces along the way but with Noah [Baumbach] it's already done.

Don't try to make comparisons between your own pictures. Forget what you have done and think only of making the best of what you are doing.