Moby

American musician, DJ and record producer

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Overview

Richard Melville Hall, known professionally as Moby, is an American musician, songwriter and animal rights activist. He has sold 20 million records worldwide. AllMusic considers him to be "among the most important dance music figures of the early 1990s, helping bring dance music to a mainstream audience both in the United States and the United Kingdom".

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Also known as Richard Melville Hall, Voodoo Child, Barracuda

Notable quotes

“Could you look at animal in the eyes and say to it "my appetite is more important than your suffering"? I hope not.”
— from essay included with The End Of Everything (1996)
“Better a loving single parent family than a 'conventional' family wherein the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue.”
— "One problem with cultural conservatism," essay included with the compilation album I Like to Score (1997)
“Why can't a Democrat get fired up about protecting the environment and enacting gun control legislation just as right wing republicans get fired up about making sure that children have access to assault weapons and banning 'The catcher in the rye' and 'Harry Potter'?”
— "imo", journal entry (28 December 2002) at moby.com
“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.”
— "?", journal entry (20 January 2003) at moby.com
“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?"”
— Quoted in "Punk the prez? Moby's anti-Bush tricks" by George Rush and Joanna Rush Molloy, New York Daily News (9 February 2004); for Moby's comment on this news item, see "today's daily news", journal entry (8 February 2004) at moby.com
“Mainly the fact that I love animals and don’t want to be involved in anything that causes or contributes to animal suffering. Also, I never really liked meat that much, unless it neither looked [n]or tasted like meat. Like taco filling. But, mainly because I love animals and don’t want them to suffer. Death is unavoidable, suffering is avoidable.”
— On what inspired him to go vegan, from an "Ask Me Anything" session on Reddit; as quoted in "Vegan Veteran Moby Reveals on Reddit Why He Eschews Eating Animals", in Ecorazzi (6 February 2014)

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Key facts

Occupation: singer, record producer, composer, entrepreneur
Citizenship: United States
Born: September 11, 1965
Website: https://moby.com

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Notable quotes

“Could you look at animal in the eyes and say to it "my appetite is more important than your suffering"? I hope not.”
— from essay included with The End Of Everything (1996)
“Better a loving single parent family than a 'conventional' family wherein the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue.”
— "One problem with cultural conservatism," essay included with the compilation album I Like to Score (1997)
“Why can't a Democrat get fired up about protecting the environment and enacting gun control legislation just as right wing republicans get fired up about making sure that children have access to assault weapons and banning 'The catcher in the rye' and 'Harry Potter'?”
— "imo", journal entry (28 December 2002) at moby.com
“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.”
— "?", journal entry (20 January 2003) at moby.com
“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?"”
— Quoted in "Punk the prez? Moby's anti-Bush tricks" by George Rush and Joanna Rush Molloy, New York Daily News (9 February 2004); for Moby's comment on this news item, see "today's daily news", journal entry (8 February 2004) at moby.com
“Mainly the fact that I love animals and don’t want to be involved in anything that causes or contributes to animal suffering. Also, I never really liked meat that much, unless it neither looked [n]or tasted like meat. Like taco filling. But, mainly because I love animals and don’t want them to suffer. Death is unavoidable, suffering is avoidable.”
— On what inspired him to go vegan, from an "Ask Me Anything" session on Reddit; as quoted in "Vegan Veteran Moby Reveals on Reddit Why He Eschews Eating Animals", in Ecorazzi (6 February 2014)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.